Despite turning over millions of dollars annually, like any of New Zealand’s religious sects, the Jehovah’s Witness organisation pays no income tax.
This and still, my very own Corporation Regarding the Awareness of Parasites gets no breaks.
While there is no notable difference between the JW foundation and my own CRAP, in New Zealand, religious groups operate under the guise of ‘charitable organisations’, thus affording themselves liberties regarding tax-avoidance.
Given their bountiful income coupled with low overhead costs – printing of Watch Tower pamphlets the J-Dub’s primary expense – and given furthermore the ‘charitable organisation’ tag they so proudly wear, one might expect the Jehovah’s Witness community in New Zealand to be renowned for its generosity.
Incidentally, these J-Dub folk believe that ‘sins require two witnesses’ meaning that if – for example, sexual assault – a transgression is committed against another – for example, child molestation – unless both parties admit to the offence taking place – for example, statutory rape – an accusation holds no validity – unless the victim and the offender both confess to the indiscretion.
Now, I have undertaken a good deal of research into the ‘charitable organisation’ matter and, I feel I must be missing something, I just cannot find the names of the recipients of all this supposed Jehovah’s Witness goodwill; there is millions of dollars, there is minimal expenses, there should be beneficiaries galore…?
Understandably, as with most religious sects and the underhanded practices that plague them, New Zealand authority figures seem apprehensive to put any real pressure on this J-Dub organisation; of course, with all the work that J-Dubs do in the community – misappropriated charitable donations, underage girls’ Immaculate Conception, young boys’ stolen innocence, along with plenty more ‘work’ of a similar vein – one might decide for oneself why our worldly authorities consider, like most religious sects, the Jehovah’s Witness congregation is untouchable.
The reality is, according to official financial documentation, much of the Jehovah’s Witness so-called charitable funding goes nowhere.
The J-Dub organisation is not untouchable and, like the rapists and molesters that lurk within that community, someone just needs to touch it.
Jehovah’s Witness financial records are convoluted to the extent that one can spend hours following trails (I have done this), and end up exactly where they started, having learned nothing.
They do like to clarify, though, J-Dubs ‘abhor sexual abuse’.
Each year, millions of dollars of benevolent donations go into the J-Dub congregation; each year, how much of that money, in the form of benevolence, comes out of Jehovah’s congregation?
They are a charity, you say, for non-profit…?
Yeah, nice one.
They’re parasites, that’s what they are.
Article by Tim Walker
Edited by Miss A Pra Priate
Photography by Tex/Freya Uncomb