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But to expect non-church members to provide the funds via a tax on their home that happens to be in the area of a church thanks to some ancient law isn't the right way to go about maintaining their buildings.It's a repugnant charge !

I'm more than sympathetic about abolishing this - it's immoral that the church expect other people to provide money to upkeep it's own property. The fact that the CoE have employed lawyers to try and track down any that they are missing is even more unacceptable.

Google are taxed on profit made after paying their staff - the Church makes no profit.

Seems a bit drastic - I'm in no way religious but some churches are magnificent - St Helens' in Hangleton for example.

I'd like to say yes but it isn't that straight forward. It has 16,000 churches to maintain yet only attract 760,000 people each week to worship - less than 50 people per church. That seems like an extravagance and maybe it should look to sell some of those assets ...... and pay tax on the...