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.
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Date: 2008-06-19 02:32 pm (UTC)Uhmmmm...did we just knock all non-Abrahamic religions out of the running here?
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Date: 2008-06-19 05:52 pm (UTC)We have reconsidered this petition and I am pleased to say that we are going to allow the tax exempt status to this lady but we are going to burn her at the stake on Wednesday. Normal Health and safety regulations will apply and she has also been granted a smokeless fuel exemption.