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Should I tithe before or after taxes?

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Each person should purpose to give according to their own hearts - only give cheerfully.

It's less about a legalistic 10% and whether that's 10% gross or net - than it is about how your heart is willing to give. And not only money to the Church or to the poor, but your willingness to help with work where you can, or lend yourself in kindness to others, and so on.
 
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Jackson Cooper said:
I plan on putting 10% of every paycheck into tithing. Should I take the 10% before or after taxes?
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What money do you actually have stewardship of? Do you have stewarship of the money taken for taxes, or is someone else exercising authority over what's done with it?

It's not your increase if you didn't even get it. It's the government's increase. Someone told you that you got that money, but you actually never did. It's a fiction to you.

Tithe on what you actually received into your stewardship.
 
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You pay your tithes from the "gross" income. Plus you give an offering which is however much is what you decide. (Malachi 3:8-12, 2 Corinthians 9:6)
Still even in offerings the more you give the more you receive if your sowing money into a good church or christian organization.

It's NOT just about money because the original tithe was about crops. Because GOD wanted a storehouse for food because you will always need food unlike money.
You can tithe/offer you time as well for the kingdom.
 
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FWIW, the last time I encountered this question in an actual church setting, the pastor and the board members together felt that it should be AFTER taxes. That surprised me slightly, but their decision apparently was guided by their understanding of both Scripture and the thinking of other churches.
 
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Mat. 22:21
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them,
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

You pay your Taxes out of the Net.

Why then would you pay your Tithe out of the Gross?

How much do you render unto Caesar, is Caesar or God responsible for the wages you receive?

 
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Tithing is not precisely Christian, but it appears that the ideal is more than 10 percent as the tithe in the OT was pre-tax plus there are tons of other offerings on top of that.

I am personally ashamed of how much wealthier we are than people back then, and yet we struggle to give from the immensity of our wealth. The ideal is asceticism. We should give everything we do not strictly need for ourselves.
 
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