The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

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The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

Post by Lambkin »

Who is this guy???

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson ... ng-strong/
The scam operates by the scam artists telling their marks that the Corporation Sole is completely immune to state or federal income tax, and that if the marks transfer their business operations into a Corporation Sole then Voila! no more taxes shall they need to pay, ever.
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Re: The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tax-fraud ... ue-service

http://www.justice.gov/tax/pr/utah-man- ... conspiracy

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-u ... 0008-0.pdf

The filing is quite SovCit.
“[t]he captioned defendant[, Garrit Timmerman,] is a fiction of law registered with the State of Utah Department of Corporations, . . . to do business in the State of Utah and is owned by the natural man, Gerrit Timmerman[.]
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Re: The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

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I notice that the two states involved here, Utah and Nevada, have both passed laws prohibiting the formation of new corporations sole. The corporation sole does have a legitimate use for religious organizations - and the Mormon church has historically used them. So it's a little surprising that Utah and Nevada, where Mormon churches are abundant, now prohibit their use. Perhaps all the existing churches are grandfathered in.
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Re: The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

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There aren't multiple Mormon "church" entities. There are certainly thousands of buildings but they are of one legal organization.
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Re: The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

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operabuff wrote:The corporation sole does have a legitimate use for religious organizations - and the Mormon church has historically used them.
I didn't know that about the Mormon church, but I believe that many Catholic diosces are organized as corporations sole.
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Re: The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

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Judge Roy Bean wrote:There aren't multiple Mormon "church" entities. There are certainly thousands of buildings but they are of one legal organization.
I apparently misread - but the president of the Mormon church does use the corporation sole device for its president, according to Peter Reilly. (Although now that I reread his article, he's just quoting wikipedia.) http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreill ... in-heaven/