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This chapter reviews the history and literature on religion and taxes. It discusses recent surveys of the not-for-profit sector and contention over the definition of religion for tax purposes. Since religion has changed during the era of neoliberalism, we have to think about it differently. We can no longer take for granted that ‘religion’ is intrinsically a public good. More and more often, it is a commodity, and we need to treat its exponents accordingly.
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Possamai, A. (2018). Revising Religious Tax Exemption. In: The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5942-1_12
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