quick and easy instructions:
via: http://keepfightingprop8.ning.com/profiles/blogs/revoke-the-mormon-churchs-tax
If you’re angry that a church can meddle with another state’s political statutes, here’s something that you can do.
To report the LDS Church to the IRS, simply take 5 minutes to print these articles out and any others you can find:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10839546
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10842051
Then print and fill out http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f3949a.pdf
List the taxpayer as:
Thomas S. Monson, et al
50 East North Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
List his occupation as President and the business as the ridiculously full name of the church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) at the same address.
Check the boxes for False Exemption and Public/Political Corruption.
Then in the Comments section demand that the LDS Church be fined and their tax-exempt status revoked for repeated and blatant violations of the IRS’s separation of church and state rules, and for conspiring to interfere with a state’s political process.
Check Yes under “Are books/records available?” and write in “campaign finance records.”
You don’t have to provide any of your own personal info.
Mail the form and the printed articles to:
Internal Revenue Service
Fresno, CA 93888
That’s it. Done. Poll’s closed. Book it.
6 November 2008 at 4:51 pm
you really underestimate the mormon church if you think there has been any kind of tax violation here. the mormon church is very careful about keeping their tax exempt status to the point of being extremely ocd!! Members donated $ by their own free will which is their right. Though church leaders never endorse candidates it is within their rights to speak out about moral issues. Fighting the mormons is misguided and will not help the cause of gays.
6 November 2008 at 5:37 pm
What about the Catholic churches involvement, or other protestant/Reformed Christian Churches? Are they not as neglegent as the Mormons? Are you sure the Money was from the Mormon Church itself and not just from concerned Members?
Where is your proof of the spending on these things? surely the expenditures from any orginisation will have to be listed in their tax report.
-D
3 December 2008 at 3:22 pm
Anyone who thinks there is a violation is obviously uninformed about US exempt organization law and tax law.
-CPA