A Discourse on Tax Exemptions and Lack of Accountability among Pentecostal Churches in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorFyanka, Bernard
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-31T11:39:11Z
dc.date.available2022-01-31T11:39:11Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractSocial development in Africa is increasingly being anchored by non-state actors in form of massive Pentecostal ministries. The relationship between these movements and the state is becoming strained given the fact that African Pentecostal prosperity movements have come under high levels of financial scrutiny. This may foretell grave repercussions for their corporate social responsibility to their increasing mass of followers who engage with the church establishment for social welfare in Africa. This development, which is likely to affect the power relations of African Pentecostal movements and the civil state has been prompted by the increasing levels of lack of accountability observable in the prosperity movement of global and African Pentecostalism. The calls for the revocation of the tax-exempt status of churches form the vanguard of this phenomenon. Tax exemption for churches and charitable organizations has a long history that dates back to the ancient Egyptian, Persian and Babylonian civilizations. Colonialism enabled its widespread acceptability on a global basis. Presently, theological and legal arguments have risen in the wake of financial scandals regarding the viability of the tax-exempt status of the Church. This is hotly debated over the background of social development and the corporate social responsibility of African Pentecostalism. The storm of criticism has led not only to calls for church taxation, but closer government monitoring is also being advocated. This phenomenon has streamed from the west to shadow African movements with Nigeria at the eye of the storm.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2408-6177
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/919
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of History and International Relations VERITAS University Abujaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVUNA JOURNAL OF HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS VOL. 4,;VOL. 4, NO. 1, 2020
dc.subjectPentecostalismen_US
dc.subjectTax Exemptionen_US
dc.titleA Discourse on Tax Exemptions and Lack of Accountability among Pentecostal Churches in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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