The three most heated topics of discussion in the United States are, Government, Religion and Money.
When you dare lump all three of them together in a single activity, you might as well crack open the first seal and launch the beginning of the Apocalypse.
There’s so much heated debate about how churches and government should be completely separate yet people applaud when the government impose regulations on religious entities.
It doesn’t make sense half of the time.
The good news is that the Employee Retention Tax Credit doesn’t put any restrictions on non-profits which includes churches.
But I’m still surprised sometimes when church leadership adamantly refuses to take advantage of this opportunity to do good things for the church and their people. This could include everything from church planting, missions, facilities updating or upgrading, hiring necessary staff, outreach and much more.
I’ve had some church leadership imply that they feel like it’s taking money from the devil himself.
Then I point out a few things. And forgive me but I’m going to use this verse loosely but in Mark 12:17, where Jesus says, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” what most people forget is that Caesar (government in general) is always taking from the people so it’s just expected.
But where is it ever mentioned that if Caesar says “Wow, that pandemic caused a lot of problem for you churches and other businesses so here’s a bag of gold to help stabilize you and stimulate the local economy with no strings attached and since we already printed and allocated the money for you it’s there for the taking and it’s ok if you don’t take it because then we’ll just steal it back away from you to build war machines and fund crazy political agendas!” that you shouldn’t use that money to glorify God?
I know that was a crazy run on sentence but most leadership get it when I put it to them this way.
I was speaking to a church with 62 w-2 employees. If they qualify for the full $26,000 per employee, they’ll receive a check in a few months for $1,612,000. This will save this church from shutting down because that is the trajectory they were on. They have said that this was an answer to prayer and I believe it was as well.
Of course until we finish compiling all their documents and running the calculations through our proprietary software, we can’t ever guarantee that all the employees were qualified for the full $26,000 but we can guarantee that everything will be done to get the maximum benefit and what we do is accurate and risk free to any church.
This is where good stewardship comes in. Finding someone who can maximize that benefit without any mistakes is critical.
I spoke to another church leadership team and they had their in house CPA handle the filing since he was already on staff. Then end result was that because that CPA didn’t have the months to pour over the 5,000 pages of documents explaining the guidelines around ERTC, he failed to collect almost $4,500 per employee. With a small church staff of only 15 that proved to be almost a $70,000 mistake.
I’m personally not an accountant but I can do math and for a small church that amount is very significant. Imagine if they had 200-300 employees.
I share this with you because I have become very passionate about spreading the word to other churches to help them continue to glorify God by growing and benefitting from what Caesar has never said before, “Here’s some money for you instead.”
I’d love to personally discuss with you what you might qualify for and prove to you that no one will get you more and stand behind what we do.
