From: frice@raids.org (Fredric L. Rice)
Subject: State Can't Exempt Sales Tax on Religious Books
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:51:53 GMT
Subject: State Can't Exempt Sales Tax on Religious Books
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:51:53 GMT
From Law News,
Friday April 23, 1999:
A unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's sales tax exemption for Bibles and other religious publications, holding that a tax break expressly based on a book's religious content is a violation of the U.S. Constitution's ban on establishment of religion.
(The Legal Intelligencer -- Read the full story at
http://www.lawnewsnet.com/stories/A859-1999Apr22.html )
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