Scientology Goes Country! YEE HAW! It's All About The Money

Many people have asked...Do Scientologists get a special break from the IRS which is not extended to other churches? YUP! THEY SURE DO! BUT WHY IS THIS SO?
Also, why should RICH celebrities not have to pay taxes on Scientology courses,books,cds,tapes, and cruises on the asbestos laden cruise ship the Freewinds?


Scientology has been tax exmept since 1993. They filed over 2,200 law suits against the IRS and also blackmailed the IRS. This was exposed by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

The following is from www.Factnet.org (thanks Factnet!)
"The New York Times reported that in 1993 David Miscavige, Scientology's leader, told a gathering of Scientologists that Scientology's U.S. tax bill could have been as much as one billion dollars. But according to the terms of the secret IRS deal, Scientology did not have to pay one billion dollars, and that was just the beginning of Scientology's tax windfall.
~What Scientology got in its secret IRS deal~

* The IRS agreed to dismiss all tax penalties and liens against Scientology organizations for an undisclosed number of years before 1993.

* The IRS would grant tax-exempt status to 114 Scientology-related entities in the U.S. This stipulation itself gives Scientology an ongoing financial benefit of an estimated $100 million per year.
The IRS would drop its tax audits of the mother church, the Church of Scientology International (CSI), and 12 other Scientology organizations.

* Scientology would receive a special religious education tax deduction for its members. Scientologists can deduct tens -- sometimes hundreds -- of thousands of dollars per year for their private religious education. This kind of religious education deduction appears not to be available to Catholics, Protestants, or Jews sending their children to private religious schools. The Tax Notes Journal published by the prestigious Tax Analysts' organization, a nonprofit organization which provides information relating to U.S. tax laws, also noticed this most unusual inequity. According to Tax Analysts, The IRS's Revenue Ruling 93-73 may give a tax break to the Church of Scientology which is not shared by other churches.

* The IRS would cancel payroll taxes and penalties it had assessed against church entities and officials.

* The IRS's Exempt Organizations Technical Division was "instructed not to review the exemption applications filed by the Church of Scientology and its affiliates for compliance with non-profit IRC 501(c)(3) tax regulations."

* The IRS agreed not to audit the church for any year before 1993 and dropped its litigation in pursuit of church records.
Scientology agreed to drop the 2,200 lawsuits it had brought against the IRS and IRS officials, and to stop helping church members in filing similar lawsuits.
Cash-rich Scientology paid the IRS a token $12.5 million for all its tax bills, about 1% of the estimated one billion dollar tax bill. Those angered by this secret deal are loudly asking if it is legal. Wouldn't common U.S. taxpayers or corporations have to first prove near-insolvency to get a negotiated tax payment reduction? And wouldn't the reduction normally be a great deal more than 1% of the estimated tax liability deal Scientology got?

~What the IRS and U.S. taxpayers got in return~

Scientology agreed to set up an internal tax compliance mechanism. This internal tax compliance mechanism has now issued policies barring all Scientologists from religious salvation if they don't comply with IRS tax regulations. This marks an intrusion by government tax enforcement into religious practices that has alarmed groups supporting the separation of church and state.

Write to your state representatives, attend monthy global protests, alert the media, WRITE TO ANYONE THAT WILL LISTEN, write your government and the new Commissioner of the IRS, Charles O. Rossotti (who was not involved in the secret deal), and ask him to open an investigation into the secret agreement, the process of its approval, and the alleged fraud in Scientology's original application. Tell him you believe that this special Scientology secret deal gives grossly unfair and inappropriate tax considerations to one "church" over another,and since they are NOT a church, they should pay their way like everyone else.

Write him at:
Charles O. Rossotti Commissioner
Internal Revenue Service
Department of the Treasury
500 N Capitol St, NW, 1st Floor
Washington, DC 20221

Together we can make Scientology pay their way, and in the long run.... dismantle Scientology, which has been the bully on the playground for far too long.

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[TheEvilOfScientology]

Haha! Excellent job :)

[NotSoOldHippy]

ROFL! Yep. Scientology is organized crime.

[bd189]

@Crowz just look up ron hubbard jr.'s penthouse interview and it might make you realise scientology is purely a business cloaked by the word religion. it's straight up to make money the basic style the mafias do but hitting you with 'you have psychiatric problems' rather than holding a gun to your temple like al capone.

[manifestdestiny17]

@Xanofar :)

[manifestdestiny17]

@Xanofar hehehe.

[wisenedone]

That one pic of lrh with is hand on his face...he's makin' the 'Loser' sign. lol. 

[LAnonHubbard]

Who is that stupid looking fu$%ing tw@t of a man at 1:19?

[Xanofar]

@manifestdestiny17 That's a gross exaggeration.

[Xanofar]

@Crowz Because despite what you've been told by popular media, most churches are NOT wealthy at all. In fact, odds are good if it's a struggling church they're probably also a non-corrupt one.

[manifestdestiny17]

@NotSoOldHippy so is Christianity raping priests raping little children and not doing anything about it

[Crowz]

Question? why not tax all churches? just because Scientology disagrees with your beliefs and the beliefs of most people? to have complete separation of church and state we need to ether tax all churches or not tax all churches. I realize you think this is a Christian nation and for the most part it is however there are people with other beliefs that live here and we need to consider creating a separation of church and state.

[jalberto9703]

Xenu is the worst science-fiction villian in the history of make belief...Sorry Shredder and Lex Luther but Xenu makes you guys look real.