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Supreme Court Agrees Religiously Affiliated Hospitals Can Have “Church Plans”

By Howard Shapiro, Stacey Cerrone and Madeline Chimento Rea on Posted in Healthcare Organizations, Religious Organizations

The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of religiously-affiliated hospitals and healthcare organizations in holding that a pension plan need not be established by a church in order to qualify for ERISA’s church plan exemption. Petitioners are religiously affiliated non-profit healthcare organizations appealing decisions by the Third, Seventh, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal… Continue Reading

Parsonage: Are Clerics Employees or Self-Employed?

By Jacob I. Friedman on Posted in Articles, IRS Filings, Religious Organizations

Parsonage is a seemingly innocuous five line tax benefit in the Code.  This “innocent” provision of the Code, Section 107, appears to have befuddled many ministers and their professional advisors, however. About 90 years ago, Congress promulgated an exclusion from income for the rental value of the housing provided to a “minister of the gospel,”… Continue Reading