The Rev. Jay Voorhees, pastor of Old Hickory United Methodist Church, said the average housing allowance for a Methodist pastor in Tennessee is about $12,000 a year.

Ebenezer Baptist Church paid its head pastor, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, about $7,417 a month as a housing allowance in 2021, according to his latest financial disclosure filed this week.

In the 20th century, as fewer churches began to house pastors on church property, the tax code was amended so that ministers could claim an exemption on their housing allowance, or the portion of ...

There is a certain irony in the litigation surrounding the "parsonage exclusion", which allows mega-pastors to excluded mega housing allowance for their mega houses. The Joint Committee on ...

Unless the minister has filed a timely form to be exempt from self-employment tax under code section 1402(e) or a valid vow of poverty was done, the housing allowance is subject to self-employment tax ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that the clergy housing allowance authorized by the Internal Rev­enue Service is constitutional. The Freedom from Religion Foun­dation had argued successfully in a ...

MADISON, Wis. (CN) – Siding with an atheist group, a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Friday that an income tax exemption for housing for members of the clergy violates the establishment clause ...

As a leader in the black church, I know that churches — and pastors specifically — are key to black communities flourishing in America. We need the services provided to the community by… ...