This is probably gone happen more in the near future. The profit is for the WT and the costs and troubles for the followers, who believe they are doing it for Jehovah God. As always... But that is not more than deceit, because God, who we know in this time as the Lord Jesus Christ is totally not involved with the WT.
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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In the early day's the WT sold lots and lost of books and magazines, produced with low costs. That economic "model" is gone. So they had to find a new "income-model". I think that's found in real estate. It can go one for a long time.
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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What would be the average value per Kingdom Hall? Is € 100.000,00 a good indication?
In that case is the total value more than: € 6.000.000.000. Selling only 5% in a year wil bring in ± € 210.000.000. Assuming they get 70% of the selling price. But I think that will be more, because they look for selling properties without or with a low mortgage.
Building new KH, with low costs, because of simple design, and of course with free labour!, creates new properties to sell later on with profit. And so the money machines goes on and on.
Clever business! JW pay for it with real money and hard labour.
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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Thanks for sharing. I saw the video they refer to.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/Reports/pub-jwb_201908_10_VIDEO
So they know exactly the number of kingdom halls. As I understand they consider the Kingdom Halls all over the world as their property. Properties they can sell when the HQ wants to do so. They consider it as owned by the HQ, because it is placed in their all-knowing computer system Hub. Even they are not the legal owners. So they "have" al those properties, but the properties are not on the balance in their accountancy. Do I understand this correctly?
On 6.38 in the JW-video from august 2019 I think I saw the number of all the properties: 69.349.
On 6.45 in the JW-video from august 2019 I think I saw the number of Kingdom Halls worldwide: 61.349.
So a little bit more than 50% of the total number of congregations.
When I'm wrong, please correct me.
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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@benny: That would be nice! -
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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It is remarkable that JW HQ doesn't give any figures of how many kingdom halls there are. They measure everything, so also the number of kingdom halls is known. They don't share it, perhaps because of avoiding tax problems or to keep silent how much money is involved with selling, construction and the monthly payments out of more dan 110.000 congregations.
I guess that the number of kingdom halls about 50% of the number of congregations is. They are not officilaly on the balance sheet of the HQ, but they can sell the propertys if they want and take the money. They proclaim this:
A Kingdom Hall is a building dedicated to Jehovah. Therefore, it cannot rightly be said to belong to any individual or congregation, whatever its legal title may indicate.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2015528#h=25
Every year they do so. But there is totally no information about this moneymaker. It has to be big money; I guess. And all away from taxes... Clever!
I am living in the Netherlands and go sometimes to Sweden. The northern country's Sweden, Norway and Danmark had not so long ago their own Branch, but the Branches in Sweden en Norway are sold. The Branches where payed by JW in Sweden en Norway, but the money after the selling will have gone to the US.
Jehovah's Witnesses is nothing more than big business, but the without paying taxes and contributing to the normal community. Normal JW are misguided to give money or work for free, thinking that it will be for Jehovah. Disgusting! I hope that we can help more JW to see this scam. I try this with my Dutch website: wachttorenkijker.nl
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Number of Kingdom Halls Worldwide
by wachttorenkijker inhow many kingdom halls are there worldwide?
even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.. i'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the jw and how this become to the money-cow in these days..
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How many Kingdom Halls are there worldwide? Even better how many in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
I'm asking this to get a picture of the total real estate owning of the JW and how this become to the money-cow in these days.