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October 15, 1993 |
Scientology's 'Charity' |
Forget, for a moment, the corporate spying, the illicit attempts to discredit its opponents. Forget the seized Church of Scientology documents that revealed a plan "to fully investigate the Clearwater city and county area so we can distinguish our friends from our enemies and handle as needed." Forget the "church" members who bugged U.S. Internal Revenue Service offices and stole files from government agencies. Consider merely the practical effect of the IRS' decision to grant tax-exempt status to 153 Church of Scientology churches, missions and corporations: The IRS now has granted charity status to a collection of corporations that deliver a service priced at $800 an hour; it has asked other taxpayers to, in effect, subsidize the work of a worldwide corporate empire whose method of counseling was developed by a former science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard. |
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October 14, 1993 |
Papers Detail Church's Finances |
The Scientologists own a cruise ship with a book value of $15.2-million, and they spent $8.5-million on legal expenses in a single year, $6-million for an ad campaign in USA Today, and $2.125-million for uniforms worn by members of its "Sea Org" division. The documents indicate that personnel costs are low. The staffers are paid $50 a week, live in a communal setting and spend 14 1/2 hours a day on religious work. |
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October 14, 1993 |
Scientologists Granted Tax Exemption by the U.S. |
The Government said today that it had agreed to grant a tax exemption to the Church of Scientology and more than 150 of its related corporations, ending one of the longest-running tax disputes in American history. Officials at the Internal Revenue Service and the Scientology group declined to spell out the details of the settlement and would not explain why it had finally been reached after four decades of costly and bitter court fights. For decades, the Government has said that although Scientology can be considered a religion, its affiliated organizations had operated as businesses for the financial gain of the church's leaders, most notably L. Ron Hubbard. |
IRS, Press |
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October 13, 1993 |
Los Angeles Times: Tax-Free Status OKd for Church of Scientology |
After decades of feuding, the Internal Revenue Service reversed itself and granted the Church of Scientology and more than 150 of its corporate entities tax-exempt status, ruling that they are charitable, religious organizations entitled to be free from federal income taxes. |
Los Angeles, CA, Press |
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April 6, 1993 |
Struggling Cocolat Closes Next-to-Last S.F. Store |
Cocolat Inc., the Hayward-based confection company that is struggling to avoid bankruptcy, yesterday shut one of its two San Francisco stores. In addition to its financial woes, Cocolat has been under attack for its management practices. In recent months a number of high-level managers and employees reportedly quit, claiming that they suffered "religious" harassment because their bosses used management techniques based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. |
Press, Scientology in the Workplace |
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March 25, 1993 |
Indian Leaders Want Narconon Chilocco Audit |
Some Indian leaders are disappointed with the amount of revenue being generated by a drug and alcohol abuse treatment center that promised to pay five tribes millions of dollars over the next two decades. The leaders of the Kaw and Pawnee tribes have asked the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to audit the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center to determine whether the non-Indian facility is meeting payment terms of a 25-year lease. |
Narconon, Press |
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March 21, 1993 |
Bittersweet - Cocolat and Scientology |
Two years since an employee's embezzlement forced the sale of Cocolat Chocolate Co., an unlikely mix is brewing at the company's Hayward plant: Scientology and chocolate. The mixture has been volatile. Cocolat is the latest in a small but growing number of California companies whose employees claim religious harassment because their employers are using management techniques based on the teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. |
Press, San Francisco, WISE |
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January 21, 1993 |
Scientology's Accusations Are Unfounded: Letters |
Please set the record straight for your readers. After monitoring CAN for more than a decade, Scientology has been able to find nothing that holds up under scrutiny on CAN's supposed criminality. If it had been paying a little less attention to the cult awareness movement and a little more attention to its own organization, maybe the Church of Scientology of Toronto and its officials would not have been found guilty of spying on government agencies up there. Maybe Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and several other top Scientology officials wouldn't have gone to prison for felony convictions here in the United States. |
crimes, defamation, Press |
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January 20, 1993 |
Scientology, County Deadlock |
During the past two years, Pinellas County's property appraiser has met intermittently with officials from the Church of Scientology, trying to reach an agreement on the church's multimillion-dollar tax bill. The result of the closed-door meetings: No deal. Now, the matter will go back to court. |
Clearwater, Press, taxes |
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December 28, 1992 |
Hubbard from Pinellas to Russia |
The Scientologists have been busy. In October they mailed to Clearwater area homes copies of The Way to Happiness, A Common-Sense Guide to Better Living. A cover letter said the booklet "helps develop respect for family and others and friendliness in the community." Clearwater residents aren't the only folks being treated to copies of The Way to Happiness. So are the Russians. |
Clearwater, Press, Russia, Way to Happiness Foundation |
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