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Nov 18, 2009
Australian News Coverage [A useful collection of TV media items re. Australian Senator Nick Xenophon] — XenuTV
Nov 14, 2009
Caught between Scientology and her husband, Annie Tidman chose the church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 8, 2009
Labour gives Scientologists tax breaks... — Sunday Express (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kirsty Buchanan
Source: Sunday Express (UK)
LABOUR is driving through laws that will give the Church of Scientology tax breaks on its British missions. While thousands of businesses face higher tax bills from April and homeowners brace themselves for rises in council tax, the wealthy church will be exempt. The change is being forced by a Bill from Equality Minister Harriet Harman, which, for the first time, puts Scientology on the same footing as the Church of England and Roman Catholicism. Under British law, places of worship ...
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 04 The landscape is changing — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 15 It's no good — BFG Books
Sep 11, 2009
Scientology, others let code fines mount in Clearwater — Tampa Bay Online
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Douglas
Source: Tampa Bay Online
CLEARWATER - The city of Clearwater is so strapped for cash that leaders have eliminated 86 jobs, cut library hours, and raised the property tax rate. Parks and recreation workers even stopped flying the American flag for a few days over 13 city landmarks to save a couple of bucks. But one step the city staff has not taken to help make ends meet is forcing city code violators, including the Church of Scientology, to pay the $3.4 million in fines ...
May 13, 2009
What do Americans want? Legal pot, White House online survey reports — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s): Dan Eggen
Source: Washington Post
Forget about the economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and saving Social Security: An online opinion survey released by the White House this week ranks legalizing pot, playing online poker and cracking down on Scientologists as far more important issues. The results are part of a "Citizen's Briefing Book," which compiles the results of an online project launched by President Obama's transition office to solicit policy ideas from the citizenry. More than 125,000 users submitted 1.4 million votes during ...
Dec 15, 2008
Religious school fees not deductible, Ninth Circuit rules — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kenneth Ofgang
Source: Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Tuition and fees for religious day schools are not deductible for federal income tax purposes, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The court, for the second time, rejected claims by local residents Michael and Marla Sklar that they received only intangible religious benefits as result of their five children’s attendance in Orthodox Jewish schools, so their school payments should be deductible, at least in part, as charitable donations. The Sklars have been seeking to deduct their payments, going ...
Dec 13, 2008
Sklar II Disappoints — realitybasedcommunity.net
Dec 12, 2008
Ninth Circuit court rejects arguments that children's religious school tuition should be tax deductible — MarketWatch
Type: Press
Source: MarketWatch
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today rejected taxpayers Michael and Marla Sklars’ argument that they were entitled to claim deductions for tuition and fees paid to their children’s Orthodox Jewish day schools, the Justice Department announced. The Sklars sought charitable deductions under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code for portions of their tuition payments made to the religious day schools their children attended, asserting that those portions of the tuition payments were for “intangible ...
Dec 1, 2008
Scientology's money trail — Condé Nast Portfolio
Sep 27, 2008
Larry Brennan in Hamburg — XenuTV
Sep 7, 2008
Graham Berry speaks in Germany — XenuTV
Aug 13, 2008
As Scientology expands, so do its naysayers — Seattle Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian Miller
Source: Seattle Weekly
Masked protesters are taking to Seattle streets as the church eyes new facilities downtown and in lower Queen Anne. Motorists stuck on Mercer Street this summer have been treated to an odd overhead sight as they crawl under Aurora Avenue toward I-5. Wielding banners and signs, a small band of protesters has appeared on certain evenings, waving at drivers below and encouraging them to honk if they hate Xenu. On other nights, farther west in the Uptown neighborhood, the same merry ...
Aug 7, 2008
Scientology buys prime parcel in Clearwater — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — In one of its biggest purchases in years, the Church of Scientology has added 5 acres to its already defining downtown presence. The $10-million cash purchase signals the demise of an ambitious waterfront condominium project proposed by a group of Scientology parishioners who assembled parcels immediately north of downtown four years ago and shared visions of turning downtown Clearwater into another Naples. Despite having no experience in condo development, Triangle Development partners Ben Kugler and Ron Pollack hoped to ...
Jul 10, 2008
Jane Lomax-Smith: Scientologists are 'bastards' who should be taxed — Advertiser (Australia)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Owen
Source: Advertiser (Australia)
EDUCATION Minister Jane Lomax-Smith has been caught on tape declaring Scientologists “should be taxed, the bastards”. Footage from a video recorded during a protest on May 10 by internet activist group Anonymous has emerged which shows Dr Lomax-Smith casually chatting to protesters in Adelaide. Clearly not a fan of the controversial Church of Scientology, Dr Lomax-Smith asks protesters how frequently they gather and exclaims, “oh, it’s great”. She then asks about the protest group, which is dedicated to “dismantling and ...
Jun 30, 2008
Scientology's crushing defeat [What Scientology paid $8 Million to hide] — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s): Tony Ortega
Source: Village Voice
Six years ago, when I was a reporter at New Times LA, ''I’d written several stories about Scientology (Los Angeles is one of its headquarters), and I was about to uncork the longest one yet—a 7,000 word piece about an embarrassing, $8 million defeat Scientology had just suffered, when the weekly paper suddenly folded. That unpublished story has been sitting in storage ever since. Fast forward to 2008, and the world of reporting on Scientology has changed radically, thanks in part ...
May 29, 2008
Will Sklar II crack open Scientology's Secret Agreement with the IRS? — realitybasedcommunity.net
Type: Blog
Author(s): Scott Pilutik
Source: realitybasedcommunity.net
In the early 1990s, Michael and Marla Sklar deducted part of their children's school tuition from their income tax in an amount equal to the proportion they viewed their tuition going toward religious instruction, as opposed to secular teaching (e.g., math, english). He listed his deductions under section 170 of the Tax Code, which permits deductions for charitable and religious contributions. The IRS denied the Sklars their deduction, noting that the Sklars had not provided receipts from the Church of Scientology. ...
May 6, 2008
Declaration of Lawrence H. Brennan
Type: Declaration
Author(s): Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan
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May 6, 2008
Taxpayers' sacrifice to the churches — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Nick Renton
Source: The Age (Australia)
It is quite immoral for taxes to be extracted compulsorily from citizens to subsidise extensive concessions for religious bodies. OUR constitution makes it clear Australia is to be a secular society. In particular, section 116 provides that "The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion or for imposing any religious observation …" Yet the spirit — even if not the letter — of that section is breached by the Commonwealth Government and all state governments in many tax ...
May 3, 2008
Scientology's upgrades to boost taxes in Pinellas — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Farley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Marble floors with patterned inlay. Plush carpeting. Mahogany paneling. Decorated crown moldings. Marble sinks. Hi-def TVs. A 32-station fitness center. An elegant restaurant. Luxury touches abound inside downtown Clearwater's newest waterfront hotel, the gleaming 240-room Oak Cove. But don't rush to pack your bags. Oak Cove is just for Scientologists. Recently opened after a $26-million renovation, the hotel is Scientology's newest lodging option in Clearwater, the church's international spiritual headquarters. Oak Cove also is the first in a series ...
Feb 19, 2008
Info sought on secret IRS deal with Scientology — WorldNetDaily
Type: Press
Source: WorldNetDaily
THE POWER TO DESTROY Info sought on secret IRS deal with Scientology 'Position represents unconstitutional favoritism of one religious group over another' Posted: February 19, 2008 3:53 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily A federal appeals court is being asked to tell the Internal Revenue Service to open up a secret deal with the Church of Scientology that reportedly allows members to deduct certain educational, or "auditing," expenses, a benefit denied members of other faiths in the United States. The report comes ...
Feb 8, 2008
Judges Press IRS on Church Tax Break — New York Sun
Dec 24, 2007
Campaigning for a 23% sales tax — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 4, 2007
SA Church of Scientology gets tax exemption — IOL
Type: Press
Source: IOL
A tax exemption has been awarded to the SA Church of Scientology by the SA Revenue Services (SARS), the Church said on Tuesday. "We are ecstatic, this is a memorable and historic day for us as it provides us with an even better opportunity to serve our community and scientologists," said President of the Church, Ryan Hogarth. He said that SARS issued the Church with a certificate on Monday approving its status as a 'Public Benefit Organisation'. "This was after 42 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 16, 2007
Tax ruling boosts churches, charities — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Barney Zwartz
Source: The Age (Australia)
IN A decision anxiously awaited by thousands of churches and charities around Australia, the full bench of the Federal Court has ruled that businesses they run to fund their charities need not pay tax. The ruling means that charities may seek millions of dollars back from the Australian Taxation Office and may venture into new businesses, according to tax experts. Tax lawyer Duncan Baxter said the outcome, delivered on Wednesday, was doubly helpful for charities, because they won the case and ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 7, 2007
Scientology's Fair Tax plot — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce Bartlett
Source: CBS News
The basic theological tenets of the Church of Scientology are well known: a fanatical hatred for psychiatry coupled with a creation myth that involves an evil alien ruler named Xenu and his sundry galactic allies. The basic tenets of its tax policy are somewhat less familiar. But Scientologists promulgated and, at one point, heavily promoted a proposal that would replace all federal income taxes with a national retail sales tax (NRST). And the theology and tax policy aren't entirely unrelated: Xenu ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 25, 2007
FairTax, Flawed Tax — Wall Street Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce Bartlett
Source: Wall Street Journal
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's unexpectedly strong second-place showing in the recent Iowa Republican straw poll is widely attributed to his support for the FairTax. For those who never heard about it, the FairTax is a national retail sales tax that would replace the entire current federal tax system. It was originally devised by the Church of Scientology in the early 1990s as a way to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service, with which the church was then at war ...
Jul 2, 2007
Hubbard's Scientology 'built on nonsense' — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jill Singer
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
WITH the Packer wedding over — and guest Tom Cruise embrolied in a "religious" controversy — Scientology is once again on the agenda, writes Jill Singer. SCIENTOLOGY is being talked about again because of certain prominent supporters. Germany is reluctant to have Scientology's most famous adherent, Tom Cruise, play one of its country's greatest heroes. Valkyrie, the planned film, centres on Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's heroic role in attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The problem for Cruise is that Germany is ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 1, 2007
Church of Scientology buys site in Center City — Philadelphia Inquirer
More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Klein
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
It has purchased more spacious quarters on Chestnut Street and plans to expand. Retailers, restaurants and other businesses are flocking to Center City. Now comes another flock. The Church of Scientology last month paid just under $8 million for a vacant 15-story office building and an adjoining one-story former toy store in the heart of downtown: the 1300 block of Chestnut Street — across the street from Macy's and next door to the furniture store Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. The ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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