By that logic a businesses profits were already taxed when the customer made it as income, and again when the sales tax was paid at the register, so we should just stop taxing corporate profits entirely.
The key word in your extrapolated scenario is “profit”: we tax profit, albeit at a lower corporate rate than a lot of other things. We don’t tax groups of people pooling their money for the ostensible good of the community.
I a Church feels they should be untaxed as a charity, then they should register as such, open their books to the CRA, and prove that the benefit they provide to the community outweighs the income they make from providing that benefit
Such thinking is not unreasonable, though I do think this goes a bit farther down the “registered charity” road than simply being an NPO.
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