You see, when you google you also need to apply critical faculties.

It’s clergy all pay tax, it’s staff all pay tax, tax is payed on the gas burnt in elderly boilers to heat artic medieval buildings, tax is payed on dribble candles and the few things other churches buy (excepting building repairs).

Granted, in the UK charitable status does allow both those that give and the charities that receive to claim back the tax they pay on that amount; which is - admittedly - an interesting mechanism that encourages charitable giving above state support for all our charities as well as supporting charities. Which is why church treasurers often have a slight frazzled look to them.

They should still marry all couples, because it’s the right thing to do, but don’t have a pop at them for tax… they pull their weight in the UK at least as well as businesses.

You have the CofE muddled with America. Here taxes are paid… except for the VAT on doing repairs on listed buildings. Which is fair enough - unless we should give state funding to keeping our historic landscape un-crumbly. Saying that, if they are a state church, they should definitely start marrying couples who live here.