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Name: Usmcwife

Comments: so here is a question, my husband is in the military , As we grew up in the church we were told 10% of earned income. here is a question being in the military you get extra money when living overseas. Cola to help with the cost of high food prices, and gas things like that. Being in the military you ask get the service member gets money for food, clothing. and some who live off base get housing money should we pay tithing on these things as well, we do not pay taxes on these items. should we be paying tithing on the items we get for living?

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If your extra money is all part of your income then you pay tithes on that too in my opinion but best person to ask is your bishop.

Tithes - Gross or Net Studies Doctrine Mormon

Ok, here's another one:

Case 1: You run a company selling chairs. You byu one for $10 and sell it for $15. What will be your tithe? (Easy)

Case 2: You are an ordinary employee, spend $100 transporting yourself to your work place every month and receive $1500 every month as your sallary. What will be your tithe (Easy?)

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Good questions. For the first one you pay $5. The second you pay $$150.

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Nephi:

Why do you deduct expenses in the first case and not in the latter? As I see it, transporting yourself to your work place is a cost similar to the cost of any running costs in a company. You have to bring yourself to work in order to make money, like you have to buy your items in order to sell them. These are details left out in the instructions of course as it would be impossible to cover everything in them.

What I think, is that most deduct costs easily as self-employed, but have a hard time doing it as ordinary employed. Why is that? I know only one person who never deducted anything before tithes as a self-employed. I heard he had co-owners who didn't like what he did, bringing too much strain on the company. Anyway, HE felt it was the right thing to do...

Tithes - Gross or Net

Why the questions, having trouble paying your tithes? I do this, pay and if you feel you did not pay what you should then you probably should be paying more! How will you answer your own questions?

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McKay:

Certainly, this is not the place for insinuations nor any of that kind. I make up questions to stir the discussions up a little, simply trying to get to the bottom of a simple point. People make money in various ways: self-employment, employment, pensions, stealing etc...

The only category I have heard is accepted to deduct costs related to making those money is the self-employed. I am not self-employd, but I do have costs fullfilling my obligations at work, that is to transport myself to work every day. Had I been self-employed I could easily have deducted those costs without any questions asked. I am sure if I do it as an ordinary employed there would be questions asked. (Like yours...) You will find nothing about this in the scriptures nor the official Handbook of instructions telling anyone when it is ok to deduct anything of your annual surplus.

Tithes Gross Net Mormon Doctrine Studies - Page 6

I think this is subject where every person has to make their own decision as to what is a fair tithe.
A good example comes from my own father, we had a small orchard behind our house where we grew cherries and apples. When it was time to harvest, my father would leave some of the fruit near the top of the trees for birds to eat. When I asked my dad why he left the fruit near the top he said that it was a way he felt that he was paying tithing by allowing the birds, God's little creatures, to enjoy our bounty without being mad about them taking the fruit. My dad paid tithing with money too. Tithing is about giving a willing sacrifice without begrudging the gift to God.
Example: Cain and Able, Able gave the firstborn of his flock, Cain gave the crops from his fields while complaining about it. Who's gift was rejected?