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The tax status of the Church of Scientology in the United States has been the subject of decades of controversy and litigation. Although the Church of Scientology was initially partially exempted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from paying federal income tax, its two principal entities in the United States lost this exemption in 1957 and 1968.
The church appears to have intended to blackmail the IRS; [22]: 123 the operation envisaged the church pretending that it had received the stolen tax records from a whistleblower and threatening to release them to create what the plans described as "an additional pressure on [the IRS] to finish the audit [of Scientology tax matters] favorably".
The Church charges for those services due to the belief that, any time a person receives something, that person must pay something back in return. [4] The income generated by those services constitutes the Church's primary source of income. [4] The taxpayers made payments to branch churches in exchange for auditing or training services.
The IRS said Friday it is sending a total of $2.4 billion in "special payments" to 1 million people, part of an effort to ensure that Americans who didn't receive all of their federal stimulus ...
In 1984, the Church of Scientology was staring at an almost billion dollar tax bill from the IRS, [11] and a $39 million judgment from a lawsuit in Oregon. Fearing a seizure of bank accounts, Scientology created the International Association of Scientologists.
More than 169 million payments worth about $400 billion have been sent out by the IRS since Congress passed the American Rescue Plan stimulus relief bill in March. See: Fourth Stimulus Checks ...
The committee was later renamed the Special Services Staff (SSS); the Committee and the SSS operated out of the Room 3049 in the Internal Revenue Service Building, under "Red Seal Security". Differences emerged between the service and White House over the purpose of the SSS, as the latter pushed for gathering "valuable intelligence-type ...
Americans can now check the status of their third stimulus check using the Internal Revenue Service’s online tracking tool ‘Get My Payment.’ The tool allows Americans to follow the scheduled ...