Comments on: There is a God! “The Family” C Street House Stripped of Tax-Exempt Status http://home.conservativebabylon.com/2009/11/19/there-is-a-god-the-family-c-street-house-stripped-of-tax-exempt-status/ Exposing the Hypocrisy of the "Family Values" Crowd, One Right-Winger at a Time, Since 2003 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:52:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Vince Treacy http://home.conservativebabylon.com/2009/11/19/there-is-a-god-the-family-c-street-house-stripped-of-tax-exempt-status/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Vince Treacy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:39:29 +0000 http://home.conservativebabylon.com/?p=1814#comment-285 Award accepted. Wink. Wink. Award accepted.

Wink.

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]]> By: admin http://home.conservativebabylon.com/2009/11/19/there-is-a-god-the-family-c-street-house-stripped-of-tax-exempt-status/comment-page-1/#comment-284 admin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:24:27 +0000 http://home.conservativebabylon.com/?p=1814#comment-284 D'oh! We should have known TPM would have had the story first! We'd also like to bestow the Best News of the Year (So Far) Award on this "anonymous citizen" (wink, wink). D’oh! We should have known TPM would have had the story first! We’d also like to bestow the Best News of the Year (So Far) Award on this “anonymous citizen” (wink, wink).

]]> By: Vince Treacy http://home.conservativebabylon.com/2009/11/19/there-is-a-god-the-family-c-street-house-stripped-of-tax-exempt-status/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Vince Treacy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:25:40 +0000 http://home.conservativebabylon.com/?p=1814#comment-282 I am happy that I was able to bring some good news. (TPM had the story before the Post). Vince Treacy QUOTATION; C Street House No Longer Tax Exempt Zachary Roth | November 17, 2009, 1:40PM Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes. Previously, the house -- despite being home to numerous lawmakers -- had been tax exempt, because it was classified as a church. That arrangement had allowed the building's owner, the secretive international Christian organization The Family, to charge significantly below market rents to its residents. In recent year, Senators John Ensign (R-NV), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jim DeMint (R-SC), and Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Mike Doyle (D-PA) have all reportedly called C Street home. Natalie Wilson, a spokeswoman for the Office of Tax and Revenue for Washington D.C., told TPMmuckraker that her office inspected the house this summer. "It was determined that portions of it were being rented out for private residential purposes," she said. As a result, the tax exempt status was partially revoked. Sixty-six percent of the value of the property is now subject to taxation. According to online records, the total taxable assessment is $1,834,500. The building's owner last month paid taxes of $1714.70 on the property. A commenter using the name Vince Treacy, posting on a blog run by George Washington Law professor Jonathan Turley, noted in June that the property enjoyed tax exempt status. In a comment yesterday, he wrote: Well, at least one complaint just happened to be filed a few months ago, by some anonymous citizen who will remain nameless ""wink, wink," with the taxpayer hotline at the DC tax office. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/c_street_house_no_longer_tax_exempt.php http://jonathanturley.org/2009/06/26/stimulating-sex-russ-limbaugh-blames-sanford-affair-on-obama-economic-policies/#comment-91690 I am happy that I was able to bring some good news. (TPM had the story before the Post).

Vince Treacy

QUOTATION;

C Street House No Longer Tax Exempt
Zachary Roth | November 17, 2009, 1:40PM

Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house’s owners to avoid paying property taxes.

Previously, the house — despite being home to numerous lawmakers — had been tax exempt, because it was classified as a church. That arrangement had allowed the building’s owner, the secretive international Christian organization The Family, to charge significantly below market rents to its residents. In recent year, Senators John Ensign (R-NV), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jim DeMint (R-SC), and Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Mike Doyle (D-PA) have all reportedly called C Street home.

Natalie Wilson, a spokeswoman for the Office of Tax and Revenue for Washington D.C., told TPMmuckraker that her office inspected the house this summer. “It was determined that portions of it were being rented out for private residential purposes,” she said. As a result, the tax exempt status was partially revoked. Sixty-six percent of the value of the property is now subject to taxation.

According to online records, the total taxable assessment is $1,834,500. The building’s owner last month paid taxes of $1714.70 on the property.

A commenter using the name Vince Treacy, posting on a blog run by George Washington Law professor Jonathan Turley, noted in June that the property enjoyed tax exempt status. In a comment yesterday, he wrote:

Well, at least one complaint just happened to be filed a few months ago, by some anonymous citizen who will remain nameless “”wink, wink,” with the taxpayer hotline at the DC tax office.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/c_street_house_no_longer_tax_exempt.php

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/06/26/stimulating-sex-russ-limbaugh-blames-sanford-affair-on-obama-economic-policies/#comment-91690

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