400When it comes to money they will find a way around it. Move Aussie operations to NZ maybe and donations to the US. Who knows?
Yup. They'll find some way. They'll get JWs to donate directly to the US fund online or some such.
As to the reasons for not joining its nothing to do with finances.
It's the whole "interfaith" thing, for one. Not admitting publicly they have a problem and not wamting the faithful to know their donations are going to pay off paedophile cases.
But the absolute priority for Watchtower is to protect their reputation among rank and file Jehovah's Witnesses.
They must maintain the pretense that they are special and different to other religions, or bang goes their claim that they are Jehovahs organization.
Without that illusion they are, and have, nothing.