{"id":2635,"date":"2014-10-14T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:35:20","slug":"pay-tax-for-what-bishop-oyedepo-on-if-churches-should-pay-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Pay Tax For What? &#8211; Bishop Oyedepo On If Churches Should Pay Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oyedepo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2636\" alt=\"oyedepo\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oyedepo2.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winners Chapel GO Bishop David Oyedepo who recently turned 60, has reacted to the Forbes List of World&#8217;s Richest pastors where he was placed at No.1 with an estimated worth of about $150million.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Forbes&#8217; estimate of his fortune, Bishop Oyedepo told Reuters that he doesn&#8217;t know how Forbes arrived at their figure but says he&#8217;s blessed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>&#8220;For me, to have fortune means someone who has what he needs at any point in time. I don&#8217;t see myself as having $150 million stacked up somewhere. Whatever way they found their figures, I am only able to say I am blessed by the Lord.&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Asked if churches should pay tax considering how much they make, Bishop Oyedepo said;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>&#8220;There is no single government input on this premises. We supply our water, we make our roads, then you &#8230; say: &#8216;Let&#8217;s tax them&#8217;. For what?&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners Chapel GO Bishop David Oyedepo who recently turned 60, has reacted to the Forbes List of World&#8217;s Richest pastors where he was placed at No.1 with an estimated worth of about $150million. Asked about Forbes&#8217; estimate of his fortune, Bishop Oyedepo told Reuters that he doesn&#8217;t know how Forbes arrived at their figure but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oyedepo2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Gv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}