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…

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