Sign J. Swift's petition to remove tax exempt status

[I'mglib]

In response to the petition by Scientologists to cancel Leah Remini's excellent series exposing Scientology, our friend J. Swift (Jeffrey Augustine) started a petition for the removal of the church's tax exempt status.

https://www.change.org/p/irs-commission ... mpt-status.


Please sign and pass along!

[Scientology]

Nice!
I had hope for something like this, but did not do how to do it.
Thank You!

SIGN IRS investigation petition & Helps Scientology to get real
and Contribute to Society


Scientology pay Tax

Help Scientology & Help David Miscavige - it is a long way to reality
And the darkness spread might not be balanced by all the new makeup. Be strong be a superman David Miscavige and let Scientology pay tax. Whynot contribute to Society?

[I'mglib]

There are over 1200 signatures now. I hope this gets over 5,000, just to vividly show how many more critics there are than members of the church.

[J. Swift]

Thanks to my good friend i'mglib for posting the link to my petition. I ask OCMB readers to please sign and share. I would like to see hundreds of thousands of signatures to send a message to the IRS and to the Church. We need everyone. You don't have to be a US citizen to sign.

Here is the logic behind my petition:

1. Shocking but true: The IRS Commissioner is one of only three people in the entire sprawling US Government who can call for an investigation into Scientology's tax exemption. I chose to petition the Commissioner for these reasons:

2. The US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin is a cabinet-level Constitutional officer who is fifth in the line of succession to the US Presidency. The Secretary is a key official in presiding over the $18.46 trillion dollar US economy. The US spends more than $500,000,000 per hour. Scientology would therefore represent, at best, a "six hour problem" for the Secretary Treasury Steven Mnuchin. Scientology is not worth his time or effort. Scientology is a problem he would kick down to the IRS where it properly belongs.

3. The Commissioner of Tax Exempt and Government Entities Ms. Sunita Lough can call for an investigation into the Church of Scientology's tax exemption. IMO, however, the Cult would challenge her authority based upon the case United States of America vs. Living Word Christian Center (Civil No. 08-mc-37 ADM/JJK). See my article at the Scientology Money Project on this case: https://scientologymoneyproject.com/201 ... ot-answer/ -- The Cult could lose at appeal or even at the Supreme Court but the case could eat up years and years and years.

4. The IRS Commissioner Mr. John Koskinen is the logical and appropriate official who has the legal and statutory authority to call for an investigation into the Church of Scientology's tax exemption.

[J. Swift]

Here are the eleven reasons I have presented in my petition:

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has the legal authority to open an investigation into the Church of Scientology's 501(c)3 tax exemption. We demand Scientology's tax exemption be investigated for the following reasons:

1. Scientology's lack of corporate governance as it represented to the IRS in its 1023 application for tax exemption. David Miscavige is the managing agent of Scientology and has pierced all corporate veils. To this point, in the IRS' 1993 Closing Agreement with the Church of Scientology, the Final Draft of which was leaked by the Wall Street Journal in 1997, the IRS included this stipulation:

"H. Finality. This Agreement is final and conclusive except:

1. The matter is relates to may be reopened in the event of fraud, malfeasance, or misrepresentation of material fact;"

There are legitimate questions of fraud and misrepresentation of material fact by the Church in its 1991 1023 application for 501(c)3 tax exemption. Most notably, the Church represented that there was a system of corporate checks and balances in the Scientology when, as so many have alleged and shown, David Miscavige has collapsed these checks and balances and become the sole managing agent of Scientology and therefore pierced the corporate veils.

2. Scientology's refusal to grant refunds or repayments to dissatisfied members as it represented to the IRS in its 1023 application for tax exemption.

3. Scientology use of tax-exempt dollars to engage in harassing former members, critics,
and journalists. One example is the use of tax-exempt dollars to create slanderous hate websites and videos against former members, critics, and journalists who speak out and expose Scientology's inhumane practices.

4. Scientology's internal cover-ups of child sexual abuse and rape as described by the victims of the sexual abuse and rape.

5. Scientology use of tax-exempt dollars to hire private investigators to spy on, stalk, and harass former members, critics, and journalists who speak out and expose Scientology's inhumane practices. This is Scientology's malicious policy of Fair Game and it is funded by tax-exempt dollars.

6. Scientology's abuse of US religious worker visas to recruit non-US citizens to work in the Sea Org. Once in the US, these non-Americans have their passports confiscated and are forced to work 100 hour work weeks for wages far below the poverty level. Sometimes these workers receive no pay at all for weeks or months on end.

7. Scientology's use of onerous contracts of adhesion to strip Scientologists of their legal and civil rights.

8. Scientology's use of child labor.

9. Scientology's predatory fundraising practices and use of commission salespeople to raise money.

10. Scientology's use of a system of brutal and inhumane gulags known as the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force). The RPF is a thought reform camp used to crush dissent. People in the RPF are often imprisoned for years and are stripped of their civil and legal rights.

11. The forced breaking up of families by Scientology's inhumane practice of Disconnection.

[I'mglib]

We are super close to 3,000 at this point--2,842!

Get all your friends to sign! Let's make this big!