Why is scientology scam tax exempt?

Question

Why is scientology scam tax exempt?

Answer 1

Scientology is tax exempt because in the 50's L. Ron Hubbard (who MADE UP Scientology) lost the legal rights to his first scam, Dianetics. He decided then and there that this wasn't going to happen again. He discovered that you can actually use the law to take advantage of people, spiritually AND financially, and he proceeded to do so with great oomph and guster. He won back Dianetics, incorparated it into Scientology and registered the whole scam as a "Church". Smart huh? If only he'd used some of those smarts when he wrote his bogus "holy text" OTIII (I mean, half of the volcanos Xenu supposedly H-Bombed didn't even exist 75,000,00 years ago!). They try and justify their tax-free status by fronting a few social programs, but to be perfectly honest, if they even gave back 10% of the money they have swindled then they really could fix some of societies problems. Don't fall for their lies, all they do is lie. Of course they give a bit to charity, they can't handle any more bad press. So, they give back a tiny proportion of the money they steal, but, can they give back the lives of the member's who died because of their actions? Can they give back the years they've stolen from people's lives while leading them down the path to Xenu? Can they repair the damage they cause after they spiritually rape you? NO. Scientology is EVIL!!!

Answer 2

The Church of Scientology is tax-exempt because it is a public benefit organization.

We support the following social reform and betterment programs:

Citizen's Commission on Human Rights

Youth for Human Rights

Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life

Narconon

Criminon

Applied Scholastics

The Way to Happiness Foundation

Anti-Drug Campaign

Religious Freedom and Tolerance

Scientology Volunteer Ministers

Freedom Magazine

National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice

Freedom of Information Act

The Association for Better Living and Education

It seems from your question that you find these activities disagreeable.  Or maybe you just bought into opinions as fact.  What's up with that?

Answer 3

One of the only reasons Scientology enjoys "tax exempt status" on religious ground in the United States is because they bullied the IRS into a "deal" through extremely aggressive barratry (which is the offense of persistently instigating groundless lawsuits) against said government agency & its officials, & arranged to drop all 2,500 frivolous lawsuits only when an "agreement" was reached. In addition, Scientology's lawyers hired private investigators to dig up any "dirt" on IRS agents which was then used to blackmail or publicly smear all "vulnerable" agents. It was an all-out WAR that Scientology had waged against the IRS, & was even described as such by Scientology's "CEO", David Miscavige, in his 1993 speech to the International Association of Scientologists.

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Answer 4

Scientology is a religious applied philosophy.

“It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life”

Scientology states that man is a Spiritual being that controls a body through a mind. To represent this life force, the Greek symbol for though: “Theta” was selected to avoid confusion with any prior practice.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ncBcbVtEwU...

The mind (we are not talking about the brain that is just the center of the nervous system) is a bank of mental image pictures. This bank is what the spirit uses to make decisions; it is composed of the analytical mind and the reactive mind. The analytical mind is clear; it doesn’t have any hidden influences and is fully accessible by the Thetan. The reactive mind is a collection of bad mental image picture that include pain, unconsciousness and command value. The reactive mind is the hidden influence that aberrates reason. The reactive mind is the cause for all human aberration, insanity or evil purpose.

Scientology’s approach to solve human aberration: Auditing.

- “Communication is the Universal Solvent.”

- “All problems of the mind are created by the mind.”

- “The mind can solve all the problems of the mind”

When dealing with the reactive mind we are dealing with the problem that individual is trying to confront that which he thinks he can’t confront so he is stuck. To solve this problem Hubbard developed Auditing. A verbal therapy that uses questions to help the individual address what is bothering him. So the person by his own volition can solve his own problems. The big difference between Auditing and Psychoanalysis is that the Psychoanalyst evaluates for the person and tells him what to think. In Auditing you just ask and listen and let the person make his own mind about things. If you give a person a fish you can feed him one time but if you teach him to fish you can feed him for a life time. That’s Scientology’s approach.

There are no suggestions involved in Auditing, all conclusion are done by you by your own intelligence. Auditors are bound the Auditor’s Code to never evaluate for the preclear (preclear is a person receiving Scientology processing).  Never get in a relationship with the preclear.  All information released during auditing is protected by law and not even the police can gain access to that information. Enforcing this code of conduct is the Scientology Ethics Officer and Scientology law. Any violation to the Auditors code is considered a high crime in Scientology and will result removal of any Auditing Certificates and/or expulsion from the church. I have seen this happen and is a very serious matter.

Any friend or family member can audit you for free. Or you can take the courses and get your Auditing with other students. If you hire a professional auditing team it will cost you the fees of the professional auditing team. An auditing team is composed of the Auditor, Ethics Officer, Quality Assurance (the person that tells the Auditor what to do), Corrections (the people that constantly train the Auditor on how to do the process) and the rest of the administration of a Church of Scientology. These are not one on one services, these are a whole team working to better you. It is expensive because is expensive to create and maintain the team.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=kwK1byq0nd...

How Scientology evolved?

Scientology evolved from Dianetics when it was discovered that man is a spiritual being. Scientology differs from Dianetics in that Dianetics deals with the mind and the rehabilitation of mental image pictures and Scientology deals with the rehabilitation of the human spirit itself.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrlHU0W9U...

We don’t ask for your faith in Scientology. There is no faith needed, when you can observe and experience it working by your self.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XUXR0XgmDN...

“Self confidence alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you. Let's make the best possible you."  L Ron Hubbard

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dziK04-9qq...

Cult status?

All great religions have been misunderstood, persecuted and attacked. Jesus was sentenced to death by a lynching crowd; his only crime:  to teach Love and forgiveness. Christians were KILLED for centuries for their beliefs. It was believed that Christians performed cannibalistic rituals and that they were dangerous (didn’t they ate and drink the body of Jesus?).

Scientology is a worldwide religion that claims 10 millions of members. It has centers in almost every mayor capital in the world: Washington, London, Berlin, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Sydney, Tel Aviv Israel and Moscow to name a few. And for a church that is barely 40 years old this is great. Scientology is not a small sect based in a small town in Texas isolated from the rest of the world. Scientology thrives in the center of mayor cities, its member are community leaders, doctors, teachers and workers from all sectors of society. The fact most Scientologists have a college education says a lot.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0AbwtQ7B...

Scientologists are involved in all kinds of community improvement programs. The “drug free marshals” promote a drug free life style: http://www.drugfreemarshals.org/ The Scientology volunteer minister have helped in every mayor disaster area in the last 5 years: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=VC9_epA-Sp... The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project has helped over 800 9/11 rescue workers to live healthier lives: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06122007/new... The way to happiness foundation promotes integrity, ethics and morals: http://www.thewaytohappiness.org/about/r... Narconon is the biggest drug rehabilitation network word wide and runs the biggest drug rehabilitation center in the U.S.: http://www.narconon.org/ Criminon work with governments agencies to rehabilitate inmates:  http://www.criminon.org/ Applied Scholastics promotes the use of smart study and educational techniques on a failed national educational systems: http://www.appliedscholastics.org/

Scientology is committed to solve all mayor social problems including lack of morals, illiteracy, drugs and criminality.  So those failed institutions that created these problems in the first place are calling foul and calling Scientology a cult. Who cares they are dying dinosaurs that failed to better society. Just a bunch of fakes with their “man is a soulless biological machine” ideology. Their ideas are not even worth the paper they are written into. To think that this is what passes for Social Sciences in today’s colleges is just mind boggling.  

Is nice to have the faith that things will bet better but it is even better to have the tools to make this happen. This is Scientology.

http://www.bonafidescientology.org/  

http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Sciento...

http://www.religioustolerance.org/scient...

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_...

Answer 5

One persons religion is another persons scam.  Convince the IRS that your scam is a religion, after all we have freedom of religion, and you also will enjoy freedom from taxation.

Answer 6

because it's regeistered as a religious organization.