If you tithe...

[RamboPreacher]

Further thoughts from me:

Tithing on gross is tithing on your increase...your salary. After that you can render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar.

Tithing on net is tithing only on what you get after taxes. Paying tithes on your refund does not make up for the difference since your refund is not everything you pay in taxes unless you make less than a certain benchmark. I do not want to have my tithing go up or down depending on how much the IRS is charging me.

I agree. further, there are many folks that have "pre-tax" benefits that get deducted as well, that aren't seen in the "net" - retirement (401k, etc...), insurance, company options, etc...

For me, it is not about the amount that I can get away with as some legalistic minimum, but rather an expression of my relationship and worship with my creator, as exampled in what I believe what Abraham did some 430 or so years prior to the law. I am not required to tithe as some kind of commandment.

I believe that as my foundation of that giving lifestyle that is taught in so many instances of NT teaching, that it is about the relationship and discipleship with and to God.
http://www.jude2.com/viewtopic.php?t=20535
http://www.jude2.com/viewtopic.php?t=3557
http://www.jude2.com/viewtopic.php?t=10361
http://www.jude2.com/viewtopic.php?t=13102
and others.

[Pastor Bill]

Further thoughts from me:

Tithing on gross is tithing on your increase...your salary. After that you can render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar.

Tithing on net is tithing only on what you get after taxes. Paying tithes on your refund does not make up for the difference since your refund is not everything you pay in taxes unless you make less than a certain benchmark. I do not want to have my tithing go up or down depending on how much the IRS is charging me.

That's the reason we changed, before that, we generally got back everything, and sometimes more than paid in (we were college students working for less than minimum wage).