Posted on 12/06/2008 2:39:19 PM PST by Dubya
A Kenneth Copeland Ministry jet worth $3.6 million has been denied tax-exempt status by the Tarrant Appraisal District, setting the stage for a battle that could require the minister to reveal his salary if he wants the jet to be tax-free.
Jeffery D. Law, Tarrant chief appraiser, said the jet was denied tax exemption because the ministry failed to disclose salaries of directors as an application requires. Law said the ministry, based in Newark, northwest of Fort Worth, will protest the denial at a hearing Monday morning.
"The application requires that they submit to us a list of salaries," Law said. "They have not given it to us, and as a result we have denied their exemption."
Compensation paid Copeland and other members of his family has been the source of a U.S. senator’s inquiry, but the televangelist has been unwilling to disclose the information publicly.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
You who is very good at exposing charlatan ministers is Rev. Manning. He has a list of them on his web site. He really does not like Crefelo Dollar and Obama.
Whatever you opinion of Televangelist ministers (I know a lot are bad, and have messed up theology),
but THIS IS A BLATANT EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT ABUSE of power “require the minister to reveal his salary if he wants the jet to be tax-free.
Jeffery D. Law, Tarrant chief appraiser, said the jet was denied tax exemption because the ministry failed to disclose salaries of directors as an application”
What a snot-nosed little bureaucrat! Isn’t this a violation of the ministrys’ 1st Amendment Protections?
Oh give me a break. Anyone who knows the first thing about Copeland knows he is a good man, and his ministry has done a tremendous amount of good in this world. I’m sick of this slanderous crap, including here on FR.
“Televangelist = Crook”. Total and utter nonsense.
Do your own homework, people. I’m sick of this.
What does he need a $3.6 million jet for? Do you like Joel Osteen too?
Every “good” preacher needs a 3.6 million dollar jet.
$3.6M would help a lot of his flock but hey, we wouldn’t want the good preacher to have to fly in coach would we?
Having a jet makes on a scumbag? How about everybody ride horses and mules.
No, he’s not a scumbag because he has a jet. Quite the opposite.
Not liking obama shows that he is an intelligent and decent individual.
Dallas News
Ex-employees: Copeland ministry followers being misled
12:07 PM CST on Thursday, November 8, 2007
Days after the announcement of a congressional investigation into the finances of Fort Worth televangelists Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, former ministry insiders say that Mr. Copeland’s faithful followers are being misled.
WFAA-TV (Ch.8) first reported on the private use of the Copeland ministry’s $20 million jet, trips made to a ski resort and exotic game hunting ranch.
But the real turbulence for Mr. Copeland’s ministry may come from within the gates of his Eagle Mountain Church and Ministry Headquarters north of Fort Worth.
Former employees told WFAA-TV that the Copelands one sees on television are not the same Copelands in real life.
Four former Copeland ministry employees said they were disappointed after seeing how the ministry operates.
Jeff Spradlin said he grew up admiring the Copelands and was excited to work for them. “Within 90 days, I started realizing this was a huge mistake,” he said......
Former employees also said that when the Copelands weren’t on the road, they spent their days inside their 18,000-square-foot parsonage on the shores of Eagle Mountain Lake, surrounded by hundreds of acres of range and ranch land not far from their tennis courts and boat house.
Yeah, this guy NEEDS his mansions and expensive jet, I mean...after all, look at how not having a jet hurt Jesus, James, Peter and Paul!
They’d have really accomplished some things if they had been millionaires!
Ed
Opulence is unbefitting an evangelist, pastor, priest, bishop, patriarch, or pope.
Period.
That said, the tax-exempt status of anything is entirely premised on the perversion known as our income tax system.
Under the sales tax system I envision, once you buy something and pay the sales tax, it’s your property free and clear. If you don’t want to pay tax on it, then don’t buy it.
Individual, business, organization....I don’t care. All treated the same. Buy it and you pay the tax.
No. Do you have any other questions?
Hummm....he must have bought a newer one and thats why they’re getting after him because that registration number for this plane comes up as a 1969 Grumman Gulfstream....not exactly a new plane by any means. It also shows that its current owner is Sano Aviation Corp out of Lauderhill, FL. Previous owner was probably the Copeland’s church.
He is a scumbag because he perverts the Word of God for his own personal gain and leads many souls astray, into covetousness, and a false “prosperity gospel”.
Those who abuse the tax exempt status for churches to build huge, tax free, personal financial empires put the exemption for legitimate churches at risk.
Bro Ken is an earier version of the name it and claim it crowd. He got his training at ORU then apprenticed with Kenneth Hagin. Bennine henny is a johnny come lately when compared with Copeland.
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