Does your church’s side business owe taxes?
Bookstores, cafés, and parking-lot rentals can trigger unrelated business income tax — even for a tax-exempt church. Answer five questions to check.
Exempt doesn't mean everything's exempt.
Five questions separate the church bake sale from a taxable side business.
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The usual suspects
Church activities that most often trigger UBIT: advertising in bulletins, parking-lot rentals to non-church users, and commercial-feeling bookstores or cafés.