Subject: Re: Scientology Tax Exemption From: David Mayo Date: 1996/05/12 Message-Id: <4n541q$d0p@light.lightlink.com> Sender: electra@light.lightlink.com Organization: Art Matrix - Lightlink Electra Gateway v2.4 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 11 May 1996 06:29:04 -0400, jaarobin@aol.com (JAARobin) wrote: > > > > >The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that the Church of Scientology and >various of its subordinate churches and related charitable and educational >institutions are tax-exempt organizations. [big snip] > Finally, the IRS has recognized that the International Association of >Scientologist, which was established to see that Scientology would not be >halted by any governmental oppression and to guarantee that the religion >would always be practiced, is an exempt religious activity not subject to >taxation in the United States. DING! DING! DING! The IAS (International Association of Scientologist(sic)) that contains (or IS) the Church of Scientology(tm)'s W A R C H E S T is tax exempt, too! How does frivolous, malicious or even just non meritorious litigation qualify for tax exemption? If a court rules that a suit was conducted in bad faith should IAS then pay taxes on that money? What about those who donated money to the "war chest" --shouldn't they amend their income tax filings and pay back taxes? > >From INFORMATION ON TAXES AND YOUR DONATIONS > I assume that's an official Scientology(tm) publication? Rev. David Mayo (gladly returning to my ministry after a sojourn in the desert) "So many have fallen, yet so far left to go ... " (finger for key) PGP ID: 1024/4D5EE559 1996/01/04 PGP Fingerprint: 0D 69 92 87 79 2F 38 72 FE 03 CE 51 31 D5 6D E9 ***************************************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMZYNnemCyCdNXuVZAQHSjQP/XIgp1Gu0AMbVEm5qxB/O+L6rCbXBxhNn ivQvKUbufbKLm+idn0T0/79ukrjYxXdLXwJG22LCijqb1JnR7BYPJ5+2vH0786m+ RhoBynqN9D7zJxUCkiaST8p+xAFDTE1iYUplxeWwALnpoNLNox7z7mMr/R1ZFBrC 36H/002EBVA= =vrvJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----