IRS Kills Tax Exemption Of Foundation Pushing Eternal Life
The IRS also raised concerns about the independence of the foundation’s grant-making. The Foundation had no written grant application form and no published criteria for grant selection, the IRS complained. Moreover, Saul Kent, the founder of the Foundation and major shareholder of the Buyer’s Club, serves on the boards of companies that have received annual grants from the Foundation. As this old Los Angeles Times article reports, Kent is a longtime advocate of cryonics who received national attention in the late 1980s when he had his late mother’s head surgically removed for freezing.
Government Lawyers Advocate For Atheism As A Religion
Someone make the case that Joe Sixpack has to pay taxes on his income and doesn’t get any exclusion for his singlewide complete with a deck and a mangy dog sleeping under it, while Kenneth and Gloria Copeland live in an 18,280 square-foot lakefront parsonage on 25 acres valued at $6.2 million and exclude hundreds of thousands of dollars from income taxes under the housing allowance
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.