The Disturbing Reality of Religious Tax Exemptions
May 24, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn this explosive interview, researcher Jason Polychron reveals how the 1989 Hernandez v. Commissioner ruling should have made tithing and temple dues non-deductible across all religions—but the IRS covered it up. Scientology used this legal oversight to force the IRS into granting it tax-exempt status in 1993—not through harassment as the mainstream story claims, but by exposing a legal inconsistency that threatened to unravel the entire religious tax-exempt system.
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