Follow the money - The Boston Globe

Follow the money - The Boston Globe: "Follow the money

By Eileen McNamara, Globe Columnist | January 25, 2006

If merely feeling burdened were reason enough to avoid paying taxes, state and federal coffers would be empty.


But that is the argument of religious organizations trying to kill legislation that would require churches in Massachusetts to do what every other tax-exempt charity in the state is already obliged to do: open their financial books to the public. The filing fee and accounting costs would be too burdensome, they say.

This is called a smokescreen."