Samoa National Council of Churches

Samoa churches caution govt over plans to tax clergy

The Chairman of the Samoa National Council of Churches, Deacon Kasiano Le'aupepe, told theĀ Samoa ObserverĀ each church has its own systems and some churches are larger than others.

Leaupepe said as he understands it, the government planned to target the money given to ministers or faifeau by individual members of their congregations on Sunday.

He said if this was the case then church ministers from the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa and Methodists would pay more tax than Catholic priests who he said did not receive as much of these kinds of donations.