Time to Limit the Clergy Housing Tax Break

John Oliver’s send-up of televangelists highlighted the IRS, because the televangelists can organize as churches, making them exempt from taxation without being subject to the transparency - annual filing of Form 990 and application for exempt status – required of other not for profits. Oddly he only really discussed one tax issue beginning around 9:50 when he gets into Kenneth and Gloria Copeland’s $6.3 million lakeside parsonage.