Can anyone reveal the "Mothership's" income/expenditure stats for any recent year?
In the UK, charities must be transparent and publish their annual financial information, but in the U.S. it's not so clear.
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York - Balance Sheets
by BoogerMan 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Balaamsass2
I wasted two days pulling state and federal filings for some Watchtower corporations. It was wasted because I realized they were phony. Some of the entries were simply copied from previous years...impossible...therefore BS.
Yes, they filed the forms...but the numbers were bogus...hiding behind freedom of Religion...a middle finger to the state and IRS.
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NotFormer
I always wondered why they didn't just cave and pay sales tax on the magazines back in the 90s. They could still be in the magazine business to this day, if they had.
Is there a deep aversion to paying tax, written in their very DNA, tracing back to Rutherford?
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Vidiot
More and more of us suspect their business model is dependent on it.
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Beth Sarim
Deep aversion to paying taxes back to Rutherfords time?
YES!
That's their entire business model. If they began paying taxes on literature,,,then paying taxes on everything else.
Worse case scenario for the Borg. Unsustainable!! It would be a nightmare.
Thats why you see the Borg fighting tooth and nail to sustain "tax free'' and donation system.
Kick backs.
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Vidiot
Or they just can’t afford to pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar.
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NotFormer
They didn't even have to absorb the tax. They could have just done what every other business does and passed the tax on to the customer. So your 40c magazine (the price they were selling at in Australia before they stopped charging for them) is now 45c: so what! It wouldn't dent sales, and the householder would still get change from a dollar for two magazines.
They were a successful publishing business and they threw it all away because of some stupid aversion to paying taxes to "evil government". In this case, believing their own propaganda (well, part of it; they didn't believe the "render unto Caesar" part) ultimately destroyed their underlying business and sowed the seeds of their current demise.
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Beth Sarim
Then they cant afford to pay Caesars things back to Caesar.
The things the Borg always preaches and professes about doing.