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Tithes are a fairly common concept among religious institutions; the Mormon Church just seems better at encouraging its members to pay their share, and better at keeping track.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2021

Tithes, which Mormons claim brought in more money last year than ever before, operate the enormous Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, finance missions and schools, pay 60% toward construction of local chapels and tabernacles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tithes are collected locally, with much of the money passed on informally to local lay leaders at Sunday services.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was probably on such subjects as Tithes and Taxation that he differed most from Ricardo.

From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by Ricardo, David

Tithes for the Protestant clergy were collected at the point of the bayonet.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin