On the advice of British Columbia’s independent school inspector, Blackmore transferred the 10-acre school site that he had purchased to the society he set up after the independent school inspector advised him that it would save on property taxes. The UEP owned most of the land in Bountiful, including the 350 acres that Blackmore’s mother had signed over to the trust in 1985 at Winston’s urging and over the strong objections of his older brothers, Macrae and Brandon. He had been a bishop, head of the Bountiful Elementary-Secondary School Society, and a trustee of the United Effort Plan overseeing millions of dollars worth of assets in Canada and the United States. It’s been about money, property and how Blackmore lost both in an internecine battle with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that excommunicated him. It’s expensive having such a large family - 149 children and 27 wives. But over the past two decades, Blackmore has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees - much of which hasn’t been related to polygamy or religious freedom. On one return, Blackmore claimed income of $51,773. In her 2013 ruling, Judge Diane Campbell wrote that Blackmore was “grossly negligent” in claiming income that was 884 to 1,326 per cent less than what he really earned. In 2013, a Federal Tax Court judge resoundingly agreed with Revenue Canada, and the Federal Court of Appeal backed the tax judge in 2014, even though Blackmore had some of Vancouver’s priciest lawyers working for him. Revenue Canada disagreed with that approach.
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Blackmore claimed that the property, assets and businesses related to Bountiful are held in trust.īased on that, Blackmore’s individual tax burden plus that of the companies that he controlled were distributed among various members of the community in the years 2000 to 2004, 20. His Canadian tax troubles - along with those of several of his 27 wives and followers - began in 2000. By then, his debt had ballooned to $2,387,766.01 - four times more than the value of the assets seized. Revenue Canada went back to Federal Court in July 2017. It’s not clear exactly what, if anything, was seized and sold because no list of properties and assets was attached to the order, and Revenue Canada refuses to say, citing privacy legislation. Sheriffs Services to seize and sell Blackmore’s “real property or immoveables and the personal property of moveables.” A month later, the Federal Court granted Revenue Canada’s request for the B.C. Its affiliate, S&L Underground, owns two airplanes.īy March 25, 2015, Blackmore owed Canada $2,069,501.59 in back taxes, penalties and interest that was compounding daily. In order for him to continue doing business while he awaits sentencing, the judge has not required Blackmore to surrender his passport. In response to the judge’s questioning, Blackmore said he has three wives living in the United States and continues to do business in the United States. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. However, at his sentencing hearing Tuesday, Blackmore told the judge that he owns a sawmill in Kitchener, near Bountiful, that employs eight or nine people. (His brothers, Guy and Kevin Blackmore, are the other shareholders.) valued at $518,000, and his one-third of Blackmore Farms Ltd. It was comprised of the property and assets of the Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc. What was left had a total appraised value of only $634,000. The last of his Canadian assets were seized last year by Revenue Canada in partial repayment for his more than $2.3 million in unpaid income taxes, penalties and accrued interest. Now, Blackmore is a convicted polygamist awaiting sentencing. He also had airplanes, fancy cars and progressively younger wives (a total of 27, according to his kids’ social media posts). He had dozens of businesses in which congregants worked for less than minimum wage. The page suddenly disappeared last week.Īt one time, Blackmore was the millionaire bishop of the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful, B.C., and claimed $6 million in assets. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪs for the logo’d sweatshirt sales being sold on Amazon ($5 from each was to go to the legal fund), it’s not clear what happened.Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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