Tithes-on What? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 50.

Tithes—on What?

By Editor

No. 685. Tithes—on What?

WOULD you kindly inform me through your Question Corner as to whether or not we should pay tithes on our profits or on full amount of money received? If I paint a house, am I to pay tithes on the cost of material plus profits, or just on the amount realized above the cost. F.

Tithe is paid on the income. From the gross income necessary expenses involved in producing the income should be deducted. This, of course, would not include a man’s own time. If you furnished the material for painting the house, you should deduct the cost. If your income is from a farm on which is a mortgage, the interest on the mortgage should be deducted, also expense of hired help.