Letter to an IRS Director

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

https://dl-mail.ymail.com/ws/download/m ... 4GU8LnZAz6

I don’t even know where to begin with this ‘Tithing and Investment CES Letter’ because it’s astonishing. I’ve been chipping away at it all morning because it’s 74 pages long and heavily sourced. Anyway, I decided to hang it here in the off chance someone would like to read or share it. Also, apologies if someone already made a thread about it; obviously I missed it if they did.

- Doc

[Dr Exiled]

The link doesn't work.

[drumdude]

http://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... -Final.pdf

Here is the TL:DR

Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc. (EPA) is ostensibly a 501c3 supporting organization to the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (COP). However, it is functionally not so. Its owned assets under management (OAUM) have grown from $10 billion to ~$101 billion in 22 years without making a single religious, educational or charitable distribution. It has garnered tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) without any activity towards any tax-exempt mission. In addition, it has engaged in two unlawful distributions per its Articles of Incorporation (AOI) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). Top COP and EPA leaders have made public statements concerning church finances and reserves that are disingenuous, specious, and false for the purpose of misleading the IRS, church members, and the public because they were afraid of losing their tax-exempt status. Finally, as will be shown, the COP fails a common-sense commensurate test, which should disqualify it and all its supporting organizations—especially EPA—from tax-exempt status.

Specific Grievances:

1) EPA has made 0 religious, educational, or charitable distributions in 22 years.

2) EPA unlawfully distributed $600 million to bail out a for-profit business in violation of EPA’s AOI and of IRS rules.

3) EPA unlawfully distributed $1.4 billion towards a non-legitimate purpose as per EPA’s AOI and per IRS rules.

4) These two distributions may also have been unlawful on the basis that they inured a trustee, who is also the sole proprietor of the COP and ultimate owner of the two for-profit businesses benefited thereby.

5) The COP created EPA intentionally to defraud or evade taxes and to hide the magnitude of its growing assets from the IRS, the COP’s members, and the public.

6) Representations from trustees and directors of the COP and EPA indicate a sustained intent to deceive the IRS, church members, and the public regarding their use (and non-use) of tithing dollars as well as the size and purpose of their reserves; they did benefit from that deceit materially, which is the basis of fraud.

7) Despite any affirmations to the contrary, EPA does not behave as an “integrated auxiliary,” except on paper.

8) EPA is not “charitable” in the generally accepted legal sense.

9) EPA has violated the public trust.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

That’s so weird. I just saw that link and list off Reddit. The universe is an infinite recursion.

- Doc

[The Stig]

That’s so weird. I just saw that link and list off Reddit. The universe is an infinite recursion.

- Doc

Speaking of which, have you read Recursion by Blake Crouch? Good read, in my opinion.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

That’s so weird. I just saw that link and list off Reddit. The universe is an infinite recursion.

- Doc

Speaking of which, have you read Recursion by Blake Crouch? Good read, in my opinion.

Nope, but I’ll check it out. Like literally I’ll check it out from our library. Thanks.

Eta:

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- Doc

[BeNotDeceived]

Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars, 1976: "That's no moon... it's a space station".
LDS 'church', 2021: 'That's no church... it's a real estate corporation'.

[Dr Moore]

It’s old news, Doc. This “IRS Letter” was released late 2019 and was the catalyst behind all of the media frenzy about the “over $100 billion” fund.

Consig posted a more recent link that decompiles some of the IRS Letter and updates the figures to roughly present day.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

It’s old news, Doc. This “IRS Letter” was released late 2019 and was the catalyst behind all of the media frenzy about the “over $100 billion” fund.

Consig posted a more recent link that decompiles some of the IRS Letter and updates the figures to roughly present day.

Thanks! I’ll read through the thread to get caught up.

- Doc

[Moksha]

Ha! You anti-Mormons!!! In the 1870s the Salt Lake Tribune prophesied that the Church would make the Brethren into some kind of aristocracy. Today's Mormon Royalty would scoff at that idea!