Religions > Atheism > In the News: IRS investigating televangelist's operation, report says
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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07 Jul 2005 02:46:57 AM |
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In the News: IRS investigating televangelist's operation, report says |
From the article:
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Associated Press
DALLAS — The Internal Revenue Service is looking into the operations
and finances of televangelist Benny Hinn's organization, according to
a published report.
The IRS wouldn't discuss the case, but a representative for Benny Hinn
Ministries confirmed to The Dallas Morning News that the inquiry is
under way, characterizing it as routine.
Critics have argued that Hinn improperly profits from a ministry that
hasn't met the IRS definition of a church for years. The ministry is
estimated to raise more than $100 million a year.
But his public relations contractor dismissed the possibility that tax
exemptions could be at risk. Hinn spokesman Ronn Torossian said the
ministry has "fully cooperated with the IRS" and is not being audited.
Hinn's ministry, formally renamed the World Healing Center Church in
2000, has had its administrative and mail-processing headquarters in
Grapevine since a year earlier. Hinn, 52, and his family live in
California.
According to documents provided to the newspaper by a watchdog group,
the inquiry into the ministry began a year ago and the IRS has asked
for dozens of detailed answers. The Trinity Foundation has
investigated Hinn for more than a decade.
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J. Spaceman
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| User: "The Bandit" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: IRS investigating televangelist's operation, report says |
07 Jul 2005 03:34:36 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
Critics have argued that Hinn improperly profits from a ministry that
hasn't met the IRS definition of a church for years. The ministry is
estimated to raise more than $100 million a year.
Geez, neither has Scientology, but they keep their status as best as I
can tell through ruthless intimidation of IRS officials.
Maybe Benny should take a cue from Scientology and hire their lawyers
and PI's :-)
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: IRS investigating televangelist's operation, reportsays |
07 Jul 2005 08:21:30 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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Associated Press
DALLAS — The Internal Revenue Service is looking into the operations
and finances of televangelist Benny Hinn's organization, according to
a published report.
The IRS wouldn't discuss the case, but a representative for Benny Hinn
Ministries confirmed to The Dallas Morning News that the inquiry is
under way, characterizing it as routine.
Critics have argued that Hinn improperly profits from a ministry that
hasn't met the IRS definition of a church for years. The ministry is
estimated to raise more than $100 million a year.
But his public relations contractor dismissed the possibility that tax
exemptions could be at risk. Hinn spokesman Ronn Torossian said the
ministry has "fully cooperated with the IRS" and is not being audited.
Hinn's ministry, formally renamed the World Healing Center Church in
2000, has had its administrative and mail-processing headquarters in
Grapevine since a year earlier. Hinn, 52, and his family live in
California.
According to documents provided to the newspaper by a watchdog group,
the inquiry into the ministry began a year ago and the IRS has asked
for dozens of detailed answers. The Trinity Foundation has
investigated Hinn for more than a decade.
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Read it at
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3254357
Sweet cream, but it's about time!
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Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful
to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving;
it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is
impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that
mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and
prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the
commission of every other crime." - Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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