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St. Petersburg’s chapter of the Church of Scientology faces criminal charges for running illegal commercial courses and collecting an illegal revenue of 276 million rubles ($4.8mln)
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On Tuesday, the federal security service FSB searched the religious organization’s office and detained a number of key suspects.
The group under investigation has been involved in illegal business activity since January 3, 2013 without obtaining the required registration. Experts estimate the amount of cash received in revenues from commercial courses and programs at 276 million rubles, the investigator told the court.
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[URL="http://tass.com/economy/950369"]http://tass.com/economy/950369[/URL]
[URL="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/06/07/Russian-security-forces-raid-Church-of-Scientology/3771496851175"]http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/06/07/Russian-security-forces-raid-Church-of-Scientology/3771496851175[/URL]
Now, if only the FBI could do the same over in the US.
It's happening. It's really happening. CoS is actually facing some form of justice.
Guess whoever they had dirt on to keep the feds in check died or left office.
get 'em
I thought Scientology was banned in Russia?
Good. And I hope it has ties back to the US entity so the US finally has justification to ignore the vicegrip it's got on the IRS' balls and fuck it over.
Hopefully this gets all sorts of nasty evidence that'll be used to bring down the rest of this human trafficking cult.
Sometimes I wish someone would organize a people's militia group and take over their [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Base]massive compound[/url] where [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology)]they supposedly brainwash and torture people[/url]. It stuns me that it already hasn't been raided by the government, considering the whole Operation Snow White fiasco, and how Scientology cultist are still actively starting shit.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52324611]Good. And I hope it has ties back to the US entity so the US finally has justification to ignore the vicegrip it's got on the IRS' balls and fuck it over.[/QUOTE]
What vicegrip? SoC has shit on IRS or something?
[QUOTE=aurum481;52324633]What vicegrip? SoC has shit on IRS or something?[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/us/scientology-s-puzzling-journey-from-tax-rebel-to-tax-exempt.html"]They waged war on the IRS and put them and their employees under legal seige as well as doxxing/stalking IRS employees and basically fucked with them until the IRS offered to settle simply to end the massive disruption.[/URL]
[QUOTE]The decision to negotiate with the church came after Fred T. Goldberg Jr., the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service at the time, had an unusual meeting with Mr. Miscavige in 1991. [B]Scientology's own version of what occurred offers a remarkable account of how the church leader walked into I.R.S. headquarters without an appointment and got in to see Mr. Goldberg, the nation's top tax official. Mr. Miscavige offered to call a halt to Scientology's suits against the I.R.S. in exchange for tax exemptions.[/B]
[B]After that meeting, Mr. Goldberg created a special committee to negotiate a settlement with Scientology outside normal agency procedures. When the committee determined that all Scientology entities should be exempt from taxes, I.R.S. tax analysts were ordered to ignore the substantive issues in reviewing the decision, according to I.R.S. memorandums and court files.[/B]
The I.R.S. refused to disclose any terms of the agreement, including whether the church was required to pay back taxes, contending that it was confidential taxpayer information. The agency has maintained that position in a lengthy court fight, and in rejecting a request for access by The Times under the Freedom of Information Act. But the position is in stark contrast to the agency's handling of some other church organizations. Both the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and an affiliate of the Rev. Jerry Falwell were required by the I.R.S. to disclose that they had paid back taxes in settling disputes in recent years.[/QUOTE]
The head of Scientology walked into the IRS head's office and demanded an interview with no prior appointment, got it, and by the time he was done Scientology had special secret gimmies. The IRS has resisted FOIAs for the details of Scientology's agreement but it has given the deal greater privacy than arrangements with legitimate churches.
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_status_of_Scientology_in_the_United_States"]Scientology's tax battles have a long history to them.[/URL] It's a cult headed by fiscal terrorists.
[QUOTE=aurum481;52324633]What vicegrip? SoC has shit on IRS or something?[/QUOTE]
CoS is infamous for extorting & blackmailing people in government. As well as dragging out legal cases to intentionally waste time and money.
Conveniently enough, in the Wikipedia article I linked above, it references that the terms of the deal were leaked to the WSJ in 1997, but there's no link provided. :thinking: The WSJ's archive of the story is now paywalled, but [URL="https://web.archive.org/web/20160313041252/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/31/us/12.5-million-deal-with-irs-lifted-cloud-over-scientologists.html"]the Internet Archive has a record of the WaPo's contemporary reporting of the story.[/URL]
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]Terms of the agreement
The agreement between Scientology and the IRS comprises a 76-page document, known as a "closing agreement", which sets out the commitments and obligations of both sides. The IRS says of such agreements, quoting US Treasury Regulations, that they "may be entered into in any case in which there appears to be an advantage in having the case permanently and conclusively closed, or if good and sufficient reasons are shown by the taxpayer for desiring a closing agreement and it is determined by the Commissioner that the United States will sustain no disadvantage through consummation of such an agreement."[104]
Under the agreement, the Church and the IRS agreed the following key terms of settlement:
- The Church paid $12.5 million to cover its payroll, income and estate-tax bills for an undisclosed period prior to 1993.
- All of the church's lawsuits against the IRS were dropped, and it would no longer assist any people or groups bringing lawsuits against the agency over claims prior to the settlement date of October 1, 1993.
- An undisclosed sum of payroll taxes, penalties, liens and levies assessed against church entities and officials, including Miscavige, was dropped by the IRS.
- The IRS also dropped its audits of thirteen Scientology organizations and agreed not to audit the church for any year prior to 1993, as well as ending litigation against the church.[102]
- The church agreed to establish a Church Tax-Compliance Committee, headed by Miscavige, that comprised "the largest United States Church entities, as well as those individuals who are the highest ecclesiastical or corporate authorities within the Church". The CTCC was responsible for overseeing the new arrangements during a seven-year transition period, reporting annually to the IRS on the application of the agreement and guaranteeing the collection of taxes owed during the first three years. The individual members of the CTCC could be fined up to $75,000 each if they failed to provide reports as agreed. If the IRS found that they were spending church funds on noncharitable purposes, the entities responsible could be fined up to $50 million. This penalty was lifted with effect from 1999.[105]
153 "Scientology-related entities" in the United States were granted tax exemption.[101] As well as the Religious Technology Center and the Church of Scientology International, the "mother church", they included organizations such as Narconon and Applied Scholastics that usually claim to be secular and separate from Scientology. They even included two publishing houses, Bridge Publications and Author Services Inc., that published Hubbard's wholly non-religious science fiction books.[106]
[B]The IRS also gave the church the right of extending its tax exemption to future branches, effectively giving the church the ability to grant itself further tax exemptions and decide which of its activities did not need to be taxed.[/B] The agency agreed to send foreign governments a "Description of the Scientology Religion", written by the church but printed under an IRS letterhead, to inform them that the US government had found Scientology to be "organized and operated exclusively for religious and charitable purposes."[106]
In conjunction with the agreement, a limited amount of information about church finances was released. This included details of the salaries of Miscavige and other high-ranking church officials, and the disclosure that the church was making about $300 million annually from a variety of sources.[14][/QUOTE]
Fuck this cult.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;52324632]Hopefully this gets all sorts of nasty evidence that'll be used to bring down the rest of this human trafficking cult.
Sometimes I wish someone would organize a people's militia group and take over their [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Base]massive compound[/url] where [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(Scientology)]they supposedly brainwash and torture people[/url]. It stuns me that it already hasn't been raided by the government, considering the whole Operation Snow White fiasco, and how Scientology cultist are still actively starting shit.[/QUOTE]
If I was ever in favour of vigilante justice, it'd probably be in the case of taking down the COS.
[QUOTE=aurum481;52324633]What vicegrip? SoC has shit on IRS or something?[/QUOTE]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White[/url]
[QUOTE=Sheer Visor;52324350]It's happening. It's really happening. CoS is actually facing some form of justice.
Guess whoever they had dirt on to keep the feds in check died or left office.[/QUOTE]
Uhh...the FSB doesn't give enough of a shit about the dirt. They have lead they're more than happy to use with even the slightest of justification.
Of all the alphabet agencies of the world, the FSB is one of the very last ones you ever want to piss off.
I still think that somebody should go up to CoS and say "Listen, these ISIS guys? they really fuckin hate you people, watch out." And vice-versa.
(kidding, of course)
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52325011]I still think that somebody should go up to CoS and say "Listen, these ISIS guys? they really fuckin hate you people, watch out." And vice-versa.
(kidding, of course)[/QUOTE]
They'd actually do something good for once...
[QUOTE=TestECull;52332489]They'd actually do something good for once...[/QUOTE]
You mean ISIS, or the CoS?
[QUOTE=_Axel;52346148]You mean ISIS, or the CoS?[/QUOTE]
Both
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