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How Scientology won tax-exempt status from the IRS

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If you want to dodge federal taxes, just aggressively sue the government until they literally give up. The Church of Scientology unleashed an absolute avalanche of over 2,000 individual lawsuits against the IRS. The agency was so overwhelmed by the legal fees and harassment that they surrendered in 1993, granting them full religious tax exemption.

How Scientology won tax-exempt status from the IRS
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