John Camacho, the director of Guam’s Department of Revenue and Taxation, assessed the Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic Pharmacy with $12.6 million in unpaid “business privilege taxes”, including $3 million in penalties, between 1991 and 2013. Concurrently he assessed the Guam Adventist Book and Food Center with $350,000 unpaid business taxes and $88,000 in penalties for the same time period.
The Adventist organization claimed that its clinic and its food and book store were covered under a “blanket exemption” through the organization’s tax-exempt status. Camacho, however, argued that these retails centers were not tax-exempt. A “status hearing is set for February 13.”
The story of this suit is available here.
Chris Lee lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, Carmen, and they have two adult daughters, Ashlyn and Alyssa. Chris is a self-described “theology junkie” whose mission is to proclaim the unfathomable grace of Christ in a clear, understandable, and Biblical way.
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