December 17th, 2012
The Senior pastor of Victory Christian Center, a Tulsa megachurch, has been accused of not timely reporting the molestation of a twelve-year-old by a church employee, according to the AP . The failure to report a suspected incident of child abuse by a “mandatory reporter” is a violation of the law. Do you know what [...]
Tags: employee, megachurch, molestation, pastor, Tulsa, Victory Christian Center
Posted in General, Other Exempt Organizations | Comments Off
October 23rd, 2012
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is working on a new project that members claim will expose America’s “religio-industrial complex,” and highlight the tax perks and privileges enjoyed by megachurch pastors and preachers of the prosperity gospel. “The most important first step is cataloging the extravagant lifestyles of some clergy for an audience [...]
Tags: extravagant lifestyles, mega pastors, megachurch, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason, tax perks
Posted in General, Other Exempt Organizations | Comments Off
September 8th, 2011
We blogged earlier this week about a church that failed to collect sales tax, but now we turn to a property-tax issue. A megachurch in Nashville is currently fighting a $425,000 property tax bill on some of its facilities which were found not to be tax exempt. A property assessor toured the facility in 2007 [...]
Tags: bookstore, facility, megachurch, Nashville, property tax, retail, taxes
Posted in General, Other Exempt Organizations, Tax | Comments Off