{"id":18573,"date":"2025-01-10T01:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=18573"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:35:56","slug":"amish-pay-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/amish-pay-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30a2\u30fc\u30df\u30c3\u30b7\u30e5\u306f\u7a0e\u91d1\u3092\u6255\u3063\u3066\u3044\u308b\u306e\u304b\uff1f\u306f\u3044\u3001\u305f\u3060\u3057\u793e\u4f1a\u4fdd\u969c\u7a0e\u306e\u591a\u304f\u306f\u514d\u9664\u3055\u308c\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes. The Amish pay federal and state income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes and school taxes. Most do not pay Social Security or Medicare taxes, because federal law exempts self-employed church members, and Amish who work for Amish employers, if they give up every Social Security and Medicare benefit. Which taxes do the Amish pay? The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, which studies Amish life, calls the idea that the Amish pay no taxes a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. The Amish pay income, sales, property and school taxes; most are exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes under federal law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[218],"class_list":["post-18573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-who-are-the-amish"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31503,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/do-amish-need-fishing-licenses\/","url_meta":{"origin":18573,"position":0},"title":"Do the Amish Need Fishing Licenses? 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