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It's time to end the Church of Scientology's tax-exempt status

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Title: It's time to end the Church of Scientology's tax-exempt status
Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Publisher: Huffington Post
Author: Steven Hassan
Main source: huffingtonpost.com
Tags: Amy Scobee • David Miscavige • Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong • Huffington Post • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. • Marc Headley • Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun • My Billion Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist (book) • Nancy Many • New York Times • Religious cloaking • Salary • Scientology: A History of Violence (CNN's special series) • Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) • Steven Hassan • Tax matter • Wall Street Journal

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For more than 25 years, the IRS denied tax-exemption to the Church of Scientology. The long-running policy flowed from an IRS determination in 1967 that Scientology was in fact a commercial entity operated solely for the benefit of founder L. Ron Hubbard. In 1993, seven years after Hubbard's death, the IRS made a puzzling and highly suspicious reversal. It settled its tax bill with Scientology for just $12.5 million and conferred on it the title of tax-exempt "religion." Both the Wall ... [Read the rest at huffingtonpost.com]