Should you tithe on your tax refund?

written by Matt Bell | Saving Money

should you tithe on your tax refund

I find that a lot of Christians (as soon as they finish filing their taxes) start wondering about whether on not they should tithe on their tax refund amount.

This post was originally from our forums:

Amatachick mentioned this in [another thread] but I thought it was worthy of it’s own thread:

“So do you tithe off of your tax return?

Though that begs the question, do you tithe on your income before taxes or after taxes?

Personally, we tithe on our income before taxes, so I don’t feel that we should tithe on our return because that money has already been tithed from (Or is that just being stingy?).

How do you determine your tithe, pre or post income taxes? Why?”

Check the comments below for more…

There are a lot of comments below showing how other Christians are answering this question…

About Matt Bell

Matt is the managing editor at SoundMindInvesting. He is also the author of five biblical money management books, including Trusted: Preparing Your Kids for a Lifetime of God-Honoring Money Management, which has just been published by Focus on the Family and its publishing partner Loans-Cash.net, Tyndale House. He has spoken at churches, universities, conferences, and retreats throughout the country. Matt has been involved in stewardship ministry since 1990. Matt earned an undergraduate degree in Journalism from Northern Illinois University and a graduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from DePaul University, where he wrote a thesis about the history and influence of our consumer culture.

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