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What forty years of ministry taught me about the housing allowance.
The housing allowance is the biggest tax benefit in ministry and the one nobody explains properly. These are the explanations I wish someone had handed me — written for pastors, not accountants, and free.
The Clergy Housing Allowance Playbook
The explanation I wish someone had handed me in my first year of ministry. Read it once and you’ll understand your allowance better than most of us did after twenty years.
Start readingYou Paid Off the House. Now What?
Your allowance shrank — it didn’t die. Four honest strategies for the paid-off years, including the one move that beats them all.
Read the guideHow we calculate Fair Rental Value
Every adjustment behind your estimate — its exact size and the evidence for it. Published in full, so your number is one you can defend.
See the methodWhy an account, and what it costs
The two long guides live behind a free ClergyTrak account — the same passwordless sign-in that opens your dashboard and the Fair Rental Value tools. There’s no mailing list to join, no card to enter, and nothing to unsubscribe from: we email you a one-time code and that’s the whole transaction. How we calculate Fair Rental Value needs no account at all — read it whenever you like.
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