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Pregunta: ¿Por qué la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días (Mormón) no proporciona divulgación pública de sus datos financieros?
Pregunta: ¿Por qué la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días (Mormón) no proporciona divulgación pública de sus datos financieros?
The Church complies with all legal requirements for reporting income, business profits, and donations
Some have claimed that the Church ought to provide full disclosure of its financial records to members or interested on-lookers.
Believing members typically believe that their tithes and offerings are consecrated gifts to God, and do not feel that they need a detailed accounting of their use.
That said, the Church complies with all legal requirements for reporting income, business profits, and donations. These laws vary by country and political jurisdiction. But, the Church has no duty to provide more information than that required by law.
Providing "full disclosure" would not provide much more information than is available now without considerable time and expense
"Full disclosure" is a nice slogan or buzz-word, but those who advocate for it do not seem to realize the difficulties with it, or the fact that doing so would not provide much more information than is available now without considerable time and expense. Many critics would also likely be impossible to satisfy on this front, and complaints would then turn to micromanaging and Monday-morning quarterbacking Church expenditures.
Financial experts discuss these and other issues here:
- Tim Gordon, "The Folly of LDS Church Financial Transparency," Tim's Accounting blog (25 February 2015).
- Samuel D. Brunson, "The Present, Past, and Future of LDS Financial Transparency," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 48:1 (Spring 2015): {{{start}}}–{{{end}}}.
Accusations that the Church does not provide "full disclosure" are often intended to cast questions on the honesty of the Church or its leaders
These accusations are often intended to cast questions on the honesty of the Church or its leaders. Similar strategies are employed in other such complaints, such as:
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