I was reading the article here:
http://www.jw-media.org/fra/20101006.htm
And I got to this point and got stumped:
"The government of France had imposed a retroactive 60-percent tax on all religious offerings donated to Association Les Témoins de Jéhovah (also referred to as the Christian Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses of France) over a period of four years from 1993 to 1996. The government initially demanded a total payment of about 45 million euros. The amount demanded is now more than 57 million euros (more than $79,000,000 USD), which far exceeds the assets of the association."
Which "assets" and where? The assets in France? The WT can likely afford the tax, they just don't want to pony up the cash. Later in the article, it's pointed out that the WT argued that the tax imposed on them was, yeah, you guessed it: "a direct attack on their religious freedom".
I say: France should keep pushing the issue and let them go bankrupt!