It’s amazing how many expenses they seem to come up with for a completely volunteer and tax-free organization. The amounts automatically allotted to be passed onto the Watch Tower headquarters from circuit assemblies (now “special assembly days”) sound to me more like arbitrary corporate dividends than actual “expenses.”
It kind of reminds me of how CEOs of large government companies keep conveniently voting raises for themselves (for example, Hydro-electric enterprises).
And, of course, whatever amounts the Watch Tower headquarters recommends for themselves, they know that that is what they will always end up getting, one way or another, as a phantom “expense.”