Start requiring tithing returns similar to tax returns. At tithing settlement, the member would file their annual tithing return with their bishop.
The tithing form would be called, "1040%"?
Deductions such as fast offering, temple fund, missionary fund, etc. would be listed but don't diminish the amount of tithing owed.
Tithing refunds would be issued to those, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, tithing refunds? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, seriously, tithing refund? ha ha ha ha ha
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adjust their fiscal year to May to April. Then they can demand your tax return to ensure you paid a full tithe on the reported gross income to the IRS. None of this net taxable income nonsense for them.
...and thought of LW and ElderOlderDog. It started with a meme, which I can't reproduce here, but went,
Poster A: "Personally, bad English is such a turn-off for me." Poster B: "You don't need to put 'for me' after writing 'personally.'"
Then, the following comments (cut & paste, cleaned up a little):
Deplorable_Ed Bulk Hogan 8 hours ago Personally, I saw nothing wrong with the grammar, but that's just me.
James DeCamp Deplorable_Ed 7 hours ago Correct grammar, very poor construction. After "personally", "for me" is a pleonasm.
Doctor Goodheart James DeCamp 6 hours ago OMG! I hope it's not malignant!
James DeCamp Doctor Goodheart 6 hours ago Literary pleonasms are benign, if you are Shakespeare, "most unkindest cut of all", but unless you are at the expert bard level, I would recommend avoiding them.
Deplorable_Ed James DeCamp 6 hours ago Pleonasm? Pfizer has a vax for that.
Straight Shootr James DeCamp 5 hours ago Was it premature?
James DeCamp Straight Shootr 5 hours ago Only proleptically.
MrLynn Bulk Hogan 4 hours ago "Omit needless words!"