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Cult to pay taxes // US court confirms Church of Scientology is a profit making organisation — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE church of Scientology has been ruled a profit making organisation. In the Supreme Court, Washington DC, last Monday, the cult was refused leave to appeal against a 1984 tax exempt ruling and must now pay $1.2 million back taxes for 1970 to 1972 and $287,614 in penalties for late filing. This will come as a severe blow to the church which has been fighting the Internal Revenue Service since the late 1960's to keep its tax exemption status. The United ...
May 19, 1988
Man loaned cash for Scientology courses — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) AS the Church of Scientology hits hack at last week's report outlining its "hard sell" techniques, we can reveal that some people were so desperate to raise money for courses that they used the services of a fellow Scientologist who loaned them money at exhorbitant rates of interest. Dozens of people rang to confirm the details of last week's story and some provided documents showing how one wealthy Scientologist loaned his own money to help people pay for the cult's expensive ...
May 19, 1988
Scientology defended [Letters] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Scientology defended I HAVE several points to make about your last week's coverage of the Church of Scientology. 1. On your front page, you used photographs taken by two men who at the recent May Fayre heckled and abused the two female Scientologists who were giving their help to get the street signs cleaned. In fact these photographs were taken while the heckIing was going on. Thus these men have been "rewarded” for their hooligan antics. 2. You rely almost exclusively ...
May 17, 1988
Church of Scientology loses appeal on tax-exempt ruling — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) The Supreme Court refused yesterday to review the federal government's decision to strip the controversial Church of Scientology of California of its tax-exempt status from 1970 through 1972. The justices, without comment, rejected the church's appeal of a ruling by a federal appeals court. The court, however, will consider a similar issue next term in connection with another case it has agreed to hear, involving whether Scientologists may deduct from their taxable income money spent on spiritual awareness courses. A spokesman ...
Apr 22, 1988
Tax decisions and rulings // Court decisions // Charitable contributions---Scientologist's payments for auditing held deductible — Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (Washington, D.C.)More: link
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Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) * Fixed fees paid by member of Church of Scientology for auditing and training rituals are deductible as charitable contributions. (CA 2; Miner, J.; Foley v. Commissioner , No. 86-4026, 4/19/88; Newman, J., dissents) Facts: As members of the Church of Scientology, the taxpayers participate in the rituals of auditing and training, which are the central religious experiences of Scientology. Auditing is a one-to-one encounter between the participant and a church staff member, called an auditor, designed to raise the spiritual awareness ...
Apr 21, 1988
Bylaws of Foundation Church of Scientology Flag Ship Service Organization
Apr 21, 1988
[Articles of incorporation of Foundation Church of Scientology Flag Ship Service Organization]
Apr 4, 1988
Scientology group fuels debate over use of Ritalin — Associated Press
Mar 3, 1988
Debate over sect fades — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — In 1975 the Church of Scientology, cloaked in secrecy, made this waterfront city its international headquarters. A lengthy outcry ensued when the public became aware the sect — under another name — bought a Clearwater landmark, the Fort Harrison Hotel. The Scientologists subsequently bought many other parcels of downtown Clearwater property, posting guards to keep the curious at bay. When the public and press asked questions about the aims of the Church of Scientology, sect leaders became mum about ...
Feb 22, 1988
U.S. v. Kattar 840 F.2d 118
Jan 21, 1988
An open letter to the readers of The New York Review of Books From publisher Lyle Stuart: 'Danger: Cult at Work! The truth about Scientology' — New York TimesMore: link
Jan 16, 1988
Scientology: the other side — The Weekend Australian
Dec 28, 1987
Letters / Management techniques work — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 25, 1987
Scientology president — Glendale News-Press (California)
Dec 5, 1987
Novel preachings of the science-fiction Messiah — The Advertiser (Australia)
Nov 29, 1987
Chiropractors seeking advice find Scientology-influenced seminars — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) "Our connection with the church is that it is the religion of the majority of our staff," says David Riggin, [David] Singer's marketing director. "Scientology is a completely separate thing from Singer Consultants. Someone's decision to take a course from the Church of Scientology is their own affair, and our role is simply to allow the Scientology organizations to come to the seminars." Chiropractors make ideal subjects for Scientology because "they're in a line of work that is not well accepted, ...
Nov 27, 1987
Cult corner — Private Eye (UK)
Nov 23, 1987
Trying to bend manager' minds — CNN
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Jeremy Main Source:
CNN (FORTUNE Magazine) – IN THEIR OCCASIONALLY feverish effort to become more competitive, American businessmen have grabbed for one restorative after another, some of them quite strange. None seems stranger than the human potential movement, which for years has offered the ordinary citizen a vaguely defined breakthrough experience : In a weekend or so, change your life forever. Now prophets of the movement have begun to argue that they can fundamentally change companies the same way, by appealing to emotions rather than reason. ...
Nov 15, 1987
Farce and fear in Scientology's private navy [extract from "Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard"] — The Sunday Times (UK)
Nov 11, 1987
Scientologists lose bid for IRS records — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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David G. Savage Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, rejecting an appeal filed by the Church of Scientology of California to obtain government tax records, ruled Tuesday that the public has no right to get information kept by the Internal Revenue Service. The tax agency "has no duty under the Freedom of Information Act" to disclose internal records, even if names and other confidential information could be easily deleted, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said. Civil rights attorneys denounced the unanimous decision, saying the ruling ...
Nov 1, 1987
Science fictions [extract from "Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard"] — The Sunday Times (UK)
Oct 23, 1987
Scientology loses bid to halt book — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The Church of Scientology lost a bid Thursday in a British court to ban a biography of its founder, the late science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. The secretive religious movement, which has a headquarters in Clearwater, had asked the Court of Appeal for an injunction against publication of Bare Faced Messiah by London journalist Russell Miller. Such a ruling would have reversed a High Court decision dismissing their application as "mischievous and misconceived."
Sep 29, 1987
International Management Bulletin No. 108 / What is life worth? The importance of hard sell — Church of Scientology International (CSI)
Sep 29, 1987
Scientology suit lacking fraud facts, judge says — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Joel Sappell Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that there is insufficient evidence in a $1-billion lawsuit against the Church of Scientology to support charges that two corporations helped the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, plunder church coffers. The action last Friday by Judge Norman R. Dowds undercut a key portion of the class-action lawsuit, filed in December by a group of disaffected church members who claim to represent 400 ex-Scientologists. The suit alleged that a profit-making firm run by high-ranking ...
Sep 13, 1987
Scientology has had little changes, book's author says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Sep 13, 1987
Scientology lawyer threatens lawsuit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Sep 1, 1987
Thugs tried to stop me exposing evil cult // --- says Scientology follower who quit after 22 years More: link
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THE author of a book that allegedly blows the whistle on the bizarre founder of the Church of Scientology says he has been terrorized by cult fanatics seeking to suppress the shocking exposé. "They've sent out thugs to intimidate me, threatened my family, tried to bribe us and even tried to jail the publisher," says Bent Corydon, author of L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah Or Madman? (Lyle Stuart). Corydon, a loyal disciple of Hubbard and his cult for nearly 22 years, now ...
Aug 14, 1987
Churches' tax-exempt status being scrutinized — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Filling rows of a hearing room as if they were waiting for the service to begin, some 25 Pentecostal ministers from as far as Jacksonville came on Thursday to watch their brethren do battle with the property appraiser. To Pinellas Property Appraiser Ron Schultz, it is the proof that they still deserve the exemption. Rev. W.S. Craig, pastor of the Apostolic United Pentecostal Church in St. Petersburg, said he went for 31 years without having to justify to the ...
Aug 4, 1987
New hassle over Scientology book — New York PostMore: link
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New York Post HIGH on summer reading lists, at least for members of the Church of Scientology, is Bent Corydon's "L. Ron Hubbard — Messiah or Madman?" This is the book L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was co-writing before the church reportedly paid him $250,000 to stop feeding information to Corydon. Corydon went ahead by himself, and Scientologists have been so anxious to get advance copies of his expose about the late church founder, says a spokeswoman for publishers Lyle Stuart Inc., that they were ...
Jul 30, 1987
Court ruling could affect local Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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