Last week we talked to Alexander Barnes-Ross about his stunning news: After writing to his local Member of Parliament (MP) last September about his experiences in Scientology, former Shadow Home Secretary and MP Diane Abbott responded by telling Alex that she has asked HMRC — the UK’s equivalent of the IRS — to open a widespread investigation of what she called Scientology’s “history of fraudulent activity internationally.”
It takes courage to investigate scientology. Alex is a brave man to be so public in his efforts. I hope there are so many, as scientology would put it “noisy investigations” initiated that Miscavige is outed for his abuses.
For what it’s worth on this: HMRC are operationally independent when it comes to investigations and the like and takes taxpayer confidentiality super seriously. This is for good reason - otherwise you could get politically motivated tax investigations and then people would spread that and it possibly discredits innocent people. As an example: Nadhim Zahawi was being investigated for his tax affairs while Chancellor and that carried on throughout his short term and no one knew until they announced a settlement between the two.
HMRC may well have a look as a result of this or other complaints or have looked historically and no one would know: that’s the nature of the way this works. HMRC’s reply will be something like “we take fraud seriously but HMRC do not comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers and comment on specific cases”. It’s always better to have these things happen but it’s not going to spark some public investigation.
A big factor is the precise corporate structure: the UK generally is strong on tax avoidance (using tax law in a way that is against what was intended); there’s a litany of laws that are basically “doesn’t matter the letter of the law; if you are doing something fishy you pay a penalty” and judges also don’t like it but it could be that legally they are completely above board. Who knows: investigations on these things are complex beasts.
Any government inquiry into the practices of the CO$ are very welcome. I bet instances of money laundering will be found and Xenu alone knows how many other crimes can be laid at the $cieno doorstep. I wonder if the UK version of Snow White can keep Miscavige out of court? James Bond has better things to do then steal documents and intimidate witnesses. And face it, Tom Cruise can't 'infiltrate' anything without stopping to sign autographs.
It may take serious firepower to actually exam the $cieno footprint in the UK. But give the tax people a chance to do the job. Alex, your efforts are entirely beer worthy. If you are ever in the States, I'll buy the first round.
let's hope that the British Home Office would also be in a position to contribute to other aspects of the investigation, in addition to the tax department that Mrs Abott wants to promote, through Mr. Alex.
I want to share some irrelevant things. I have been in this forum since August 2023, I did not know him. About three years ago, Twitter (where I stopped being), informed me via Gmail that they had logged into my account from California, San Mateo specifically, coincidentally the day after I shared from that platform, some information about the modus operandi of scientology I mean, I was in Spain and I don't know anyone in California.(Email below)
It takes courage to investigate scientology. Alex is a brave man to be so public in his efforts. I hope there are so many, as scientology would put it “noisy investigations” initiated that Miscavige is outed for his abuses.
For what it’s worth on this: HMRC are operationally independent when it comes to investigations and the like and takes taxpayer confidentiality super seriously. This is for good reason - otherwise you could get politically motivated tax investigations and then people would spread that and it possibly discredits innocent people. As an example: Nadhim Zahawi was being investigated for his tax affairs while Chancellor and that carried on throughout his short term and no one knew until they announced a settlement between the two.
HMRC may well have a look as a result of this or other complaints or have looked historically and no one would know: that’s the nature of the way this works. HMRC’s reply will be something like “we take fraud seriously but HMRC do not comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers and comment on specific cases”. It’s always better to have these things happen but it’s not going to spark some public investigation.
A big factor is the precise corporate structure: the UK generally is strong on tax avoidance (using tax law in a way that is against what was intended); there’s a litany of laws that are basically “doesn’t matter the letter of the law; if you are doing something fishy you pay a penalty” and judges also don’t like it but it could be that legally they are completely above board. Who knows: investigations on these things are complex beasts.
Any government inquiry into the practices of the CO$ are very welcome. I bet instances of money laundering will be found and Xenu alone knows how many other crimes can be laid at the $cieno doorstep. I wonder if the UK version of Snow White can keep Miscavige out of court? James Bond has better things to do then steal documents and intimidate witnesses. And face it, Tom Cruise can't 'infiltrate' anything without stopping to sign autographs.
It may take serious firepower to actually exam the $cieno footprint in the UK. But give the tax people a chance to do the job. Alex, your efforts are entirely beer worthy. If you are ever in the States, I'll buy the first round.
let's hope that the British Home Office would also be in a position to contribute to other aspects of the investigation, in addition to the tax department that Mrs Abott wants to promote, through Mr. Alex.
I want to share some irrelevant things. I have been in this forum since August 2023, I did not know him. About three years ago, Twitter (where I stopped being), informed me via Gmail that they had logged into my account from California, San Mateo specifically, coincidentally the day after I shared from that platform, some information about the modus operandi of scientology I mean, I was in Spain and I don't know anyone in California.(Email below)
https://youtube.com/shorts/7fEbvcbyvgM?si=a-T9i5dmbULqtzxh
Alexander...are you being subjected to Scn's typical harassments as a result of your efforts?