For over 25 years, Advance America has led the effort to protect churches from being taxed. It appears that there will be another attempt to tax churches in the 2008 General Assembly. As local governments look for more money, there will be more attempts to force churches to pay property taxes. Local and state governmental officials should not be looking to churches and private colleges or church ministries like campgrounds for money. Instead, they need to control their spending!
One of the benefits of having property taxes permanently repealed in the Constitution would be to protect churches and church ministries from being forced to pay property taxes.