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WRAL Investigates: Private country clubs can claim nonprofit status

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"How about no tax exempt status for anybody?" All people pay taxes on their income. The question is when people get together and pool their after tax money to do something together, should it be tax again. Say five people pool money to buy season football tickets together and take turns going to game. Should their new football "club" pay taxes on their dues collected to buy the tickets? Of course not. Same with with people to pool their after tax income to play golf. Should volunteer fire depts pay tax on donated revenues to your fund raising events?

pdbullard
February 7, 2013 2:09 p.m.

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How about no tax exempt status for anybody? No clubs, sports teams, churches etc. As a volunteer firefighter I serve a public good, so maybe I should be alowed to claim myself as tax exempt.

kermit60
February 7, 2013 1:44 p.m.

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Ridiculous.

racheliza
February 7, 2013 11:07 a.m.

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What about all those homeowners associations. They collect thousands in revenue and pay no taxes. All the fancy swimming pools and covered parking garages for the rich republicans and not one dime in income taxes. Unbelievable. Stop the HOA taxpayer subsidies now. Watch out rotary club, we coming for you next. And while we are at it those Girl Scout cookies bring in tremendous revenues we need to tax.

pdbullard
February 7, 2013 10:35 a.m.

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... and Non-Profits like Barber can harass them.

bombayrunner
February 6, 2013 6:49 p.m.

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to wdwmk: when you spend your already-taxed money on groceries, or whatever, you don't get taxed on it again. And I mean income taxes, not sales tax. A country club is simply a way for people to pool their money in order to have something they couldn't afford individually, like a golf course. Do you really think they should be taxed a second time on their own money?

john51
February 6, 2013 6:23 p.m.

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"Here is a perfect loophole to be closed, and the GOPers are screaming to keep it open"

There is no loophole here. Just a common sense interpretation of the meaning of "income". Nobody is "screaming to keep it open" because it just isn't an important issue. I am as far from being a Republican as you can get, and I believe attempts to tax private social clubs are wrong headed and philosophically misguided.

Ken D.
February 6, 2013 4:23 p.m.

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Here is a perfect loophole to be closed, and the GOPers are screaming to keep it open... I'm *shocked* to see that their talk of trimming our deficits is just bologna...

twatts1000
February 6, 2013 2:57 p.m.

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WooHoo2You::::WRAL is a news agency not a lobbying group…they are doing exactly their intended purpose.

They sure do cuddle up with the dems a lot, may as well be lobbying for them.-driverkid3

You only say that when you don’t like the story / facts.