Once or twice a year . <| sep |> Cards aren ' t coins . That ' s the point . <| sep |> Worst is so far every call has favored the Vikings . Like , mess up evenly if you ' re gonna be this bad . <| sep |> That ' s literally how they got their tax exemption , it was really underhanded and manipulative read massively criminal . According to Lawrence Wright ' s book version of Going Clear , they instructed people associated with their cult to file an enormous number of lawsuits filed against the agency in every jurisdiction across the country , both professional and personal , which diminished the efficiency of the IRS you have a hard time concentrating on your work with a clear head when you ' ve got personal and professional lawsuits against you for BS . And then , in addition to that , they were stealing , breaking onto the property of , and in some cases if memory serves , dogs , cats , or other pets of higher up IRS officials went mysteriously missing . They even talk about this in the HBO documentary version of the book .