Help, help, I'm being oppressed!
Jun. 19th, 2008 07:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So this lady has a pagan shop. You know, a store.
And people meet there for rituals and stuff.
So she wants place of worship status for the place. That is, she wants tax-exempt status.
For a store.
Maybe British taxes are different (anyone reading from the UK have any comments?) but it seems to me that if one was to petition one's government to make a store tax-exempt...that it might not go over so well. Am I crazy here?
Now, the reasons given for the denial are a little misguided, and I think the folks that made these statements need to learn a little bit about the Wiccan religion:
The Home Office argues that the religion does not involve worship of a supreme being so is not legitimate, a point which Sandra strongly refutes.
But seriously kids. At the end of the day, it's a store.
So this lady has a pagan shop. You know, a store.
And people meet there for rituals and stuff.
So she wants place of worship status for the place. That is, she wants tax-exempt status.
For a store.
Maybe British taxes are different (anyone reading from the UK have any comments?) but it seems to me that if one was to petition one's government to make a store tax-exempt...that it might not go over so well. Am I crazy here?
Now, the reasons given for the denial are a little misguided, and I think the folks that made these statements need to learn a little bit about the Wiccan religion:
The Home Office argues that the religion does not involve worship of a supreme being so is not legitimate, a point which Sandra strongly refutes.
But seriously kids. At the end of the day, it's a store.
