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  • Housing allowance survives at appeals court
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, November 13, 2014 (9 years ago)

    "This is indeed good news for ministers." -- O.S. Hawkins
    CHICAGO (BP) -- A federal appeals court has overturned a decision striking down the 60-year-old ministerial housing allowance in an action cheered by Southern Baptist leaders.

    The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled today (Nov. 13) that an atheist organization lacked the legal right -- known as "standing" -- to challenge the portion of a 1954 law that permits clergy to exclude for federal income tax purposes a portion or all of their gross income as a housing allowance. Read More