Assembly rejects tax for seminaries The Presbyterian Layman Volume 34, Number 5 Posted July 6, 2001 LOUISVILLE, Ky.– The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has decided not to tax local congregations to support the denomination’s seminaries. Instead of a tax, or euphemistically an involuntary apportionment, the commissioners accepted a committee’s recommendation to amend Overture 01-10 from the Presbytery of Iowa to encourage local congregations to support the seminaries. That’s the way it is now. The denomination’s Theological Education Fund reports that 153 churches quit giving to the fund between 1997 and 1998 and that 58 additional congregations “drastically reduced their giving during the same time period.”

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