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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.4, N0.41
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Ministerial Expense Allotment Year-end Review
OCTOBER 29, 1982
Now is the time to review your expense allotment. When your allotment check
is mailed it is sent in advance of projected expenses. At the end of the
year, the total of all allotment checks will be added to your W-2 form as
income.
Unless you can sufficiently justify to the IRS the business
expenses that match the expense allotments sent you, you will end up having
to pay the tax on it.
The allotment check is only to be used for Church business expenses. If you
have received more expense money than you actually spent, you should return
the excess to the Church. We will need to receive the check no later than
the middl� of December in order to credit the amount to your W-2 statement.
If we don't have it by then we can't be sure the necessary processing will
get done.
In that case, your W-2 statement would not reflect the returned
money, and you would have to pay income tax on that amount. You will need
to estimate your expense needs for the rest of the year to know how much to
return.
If you find that your allotment has exceeded your expense by a large amount,
you may want to consider reducing the allotment. If you want to do this,
please include a note to that effect with the check when you send it.
You should also review your festival expenses and return any unused fest
ival allotment at this time. Please make separate checks for second tithe
funds being returned and for your regular allotment.
Reporting D & R Cases
We still have many D & R cases coming in without the information necessary
to process them. It is imperative that each pastor send a complete report
with all necessary facts for each D & R case. Please carefully follow the
instructions given in the January 9, 1982 PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT.
Reminder Regarding Graduate Spokesman Clubs
Reprinted below are the guidelines for Graduate Spokesman Clubs from the
February 5, 1982 PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT.
No special or unusual formats for Graduate Clubs should be im
plemented. Until you have enough graduates for a separate Grad
uate Club, it is best to mix graduates in with non-graduates in a
regular club format. After their icebreakers, the graduates can
go on to select any speech in the manual rather than following
the numbered format if theywish.
(However, they should limit
themselves to only one "heart to heart" and � "attack" each