The legal structure of City of Refuge Christian Fellowship was originally a corporation recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization. Then Pastor Bruce Gunkle met Elizabeth and Frederic Gardner, who ran Church Restoration Ministries at a church leadership conference. They recommended a different model - corporation sole. Based on the outcome of a recent tax court decision corporation sole did not work out so well for Pastor Gunkle. For 2007 a deficiency of about $20,000 in tax and penalty was upheld. Reading the case, it seems that much of the tax could have been legitimately avoided under the original structure.
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