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• Over time, the provision has been interpreted to give members of the clergy great leeway in using their parsonage allowances.
• Grant, the Dallas televangelist, probably could have averted a prison term had he only taken an even larger parsonage allowance from his Eagle's Nest Church.
• Its president, Paul Crouch, ordains its station managers, and that makes them eligible to receive part of their modest pay as a tax-free parsonage allowance.
• In part because Congress has placed few limits on parsonage allowances, for example, taxpayers have helped underwrite the extravagant lives of televangelists like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert.
• Colby May, a telecommunications lawyer in Washington who represents Trinity Broadcasting, said parsonage allowances for the network's station managers had been examined repeatedly by IRS auditors.
• Most ministers, rabbis and priests, of course, receive modest parsonage allowances, which can be used to pay rent and other housing costs or to buy a home.
• Since 1921, members of the clergy have been allowed to exclude from the income they report to the IRS a parsonage allowance representing the fair-market rental value of their home, plus operating and maintenance costs.
• One Dallas televangelist, Walter V . Grant, was receiving a $ 175, 000-a-year parsonage allowance, according to records in a civil lawsuit, before he was imprisoned for income tax evasion in 1995.
• In " Religious Organizations : IRS and Accounting Issues " ( Guinn, Smith & AMP; Co ., 1998, $ 125 ), Guinn, the Dallas accountant, recommends using the parsonage allowance to make repairs or to buy furniture.
• Hammar suggests, for example, that ministers may be able to pay their local telephone bills with tax-free funds, since the IRS has already agreed that natural gas, electric, water and sewerage bills can be paid out of the parsonage allowance.
• "The intent of the parsonage allowance is to provide ministers of God with a modest place to live so they can work with the poor, not to be a loophole to subsidize mansions, " said Ole Anthony, a Dallas minister who has helped news organizations expose the lavish ways of several televangelists.