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Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State

Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State

Brunson, Samuel D.

Hardcover

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0252046323
ISBN13: 9780252046322
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Feb 25 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

The founding and development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints run parallel to the rise of the modern tax system and administrative state. Samuel D. Brunson looks at the relationships between the Church and various federal, state, local, and international tax regimes.

The church and its members engage with the state as taxpayers and as members of a faith exempt from taxes. As Brunson shows, LDS members and the Church have at various times enacted, enforced, and collected taxes while also challenging taxes in the courts and politics. Brunson delves into the ways LDS members used their status as taxpayers to affirm themselves as citizens and how outsiders have attacked the Church's tax-exempt status to delegitimize it. Throughout, Brunson uses the daily interactions between the Latter-day Saints and taxation to explain important and inevitable holes in the wall between church and state.

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