Church admits little pay to workers and tax problems! The Cult of $cientology wants the IRS to ammend a few recently proposed immigration regulations. The comments they filed are public information and available on the IRS website (and linked below). Statements filed with the government are hard to deny: http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=090000648025951c http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064802595d7 Smells like Fair Labor Standards Act violations to me. Could also spin into an easy immigration loophole for foreign terrorists. No papers to show work history or pay and no green cards???
2007 irs form says you don't file if income is under $8,750 http://ftp.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f9452.pdf $6.15/hr is minimum wage in Florida, the homebase of this particular CoS operation. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes...rch_String=minimum wage&URL=CH0448/Sec110.HTM I'm estimating a full time, minimum wage employee in Florida would earn $12,500 - $13,000 annually. Even if the Cult tries to say that room & board makes up the difference, I believe the IRS still requires that you claim that value as "income" and then work out the details. Sounds like fraud to me. Anyone see problems with that math? 'cause it looks like $cientology shot itself in the foot on this one.
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/ ... 23,00.html Hmmmmmmm, interesting. Does this apply to Sea Orgs?
