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What's the specific policy you're suggesting? At the end of each year, Sanitarium donates all profits to the church.
Would you like to see Churches lose charity status? It's a vote loser for Labour who have a lot of church tithing voters, and it's a donation loser for National who get a lot of money from a small number of churches, plus many (like luxon) are hard core christians.
There is simply no path to removing charity status from churches while 50% of NZ believe in a higher power.
The other option is to stop companies being able to claim charity donations as an expense, which is a good way to kill every major charity.
Good point, not sure what the solution should be but at the moment it does seem like Sanitarium are taking advantage of the current system.