Showing posts with label Property tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Property tax. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

State RFRA Bars Taxpayer Suit Challenging Church's Property Tax Exemption

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 In In re Calvary Chapel Iowa ,  (IA Adm. Hearings Div., Sept. 17, 2024), an Iowa Administrative Law Judge held that the state's Religio...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Denial of Church's Property Tax Exemption Did Not Violate RLUIPA

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In Sandstrom v. Wendell , (WD NY, March 22, 2024), a New York federal district court rejected RLUIPA challenges to local tax officials'...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Canadian Court Upholds Denial of Tax Exemption for Island Owned by Shinto Organization

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In Matsuri Foundation of Canada v. British Columbia (Assessor of Area #01 - Capital) , (BC Sup. Ct., February 2, 2024), the Supreme Court of...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Church Sues Challenging Fee for Water Connection

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Suit was filed this week in a Texas state trial court by a church challenging a Houston-area utility district's insistence that the chur...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Application For Tax Exemption Does Not Violate Organization's Free Exercise Rights

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In Children of the Kingdon v. Central Appraisal District of Taylor County ,  (TX App, Aug. 3, 2023), a Texas state appeals court affirmed a ...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

European Court Says Jehovah's Witnesses Were Wrongly Denied Tax Exemption

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In Affaire Assemblée chrétienne des Témoins de Jéhovah d’Anderlecht et autres c. Belgique , (ECHR, April 5, 2022), the European Court of Hum...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Certiorari Denied In Virginia Ministerial Residence Tax Exemption Dispute

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The U.S. Supreme Court today denied review in Trustees of New Life In Christ Church v. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia ,   ( certiorari   d...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Tai Chi Class Sites Are Not Places of Worship For Tax Exemption Law In Ontario

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In  Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism v. Municipal Property Assessment Corporation , (ON Super. Ct., Jan. 6, 2022), an Ontario (Canada) appel...
Friday, October 08, 2021

Canadian Court Says Tai Chi Institute Is A Religious Institution

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In Fung Loy Kok Taoism Institute v. City of Montreal , (Quebec Super. Ct., Sept. 20, 2021), a Canadian trial court in Quebec held that a Tao...
Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Supreme Court Review Sought In Dispute Over Virginia Property Tax Exemption

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A petition for certorari ( full text ) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in Trustees of the New Life In Christ Church v. City ...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

California Church Not Exempt From Property Tax Assessed On Basis of Square Footage

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In Valley Baptist Church v. City of San Rafael , (CA App., Feb. 26, 2021), a California state appellate court held that the "property t...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Religious Residential Program Gets Property Tax Exemption

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In  Aish Hatorah New York v. Passaic City , (NJ Tax Ct., July 10, 2019), the New Jersey Tax Court held that two properties used by the Ortho...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Synagogue Loses Challenge To Storm Water Remediation Fee

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In  Shaarei Tfiloh Congregation v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore , (MD App., April 27, 2018), in a suit by a synagogue the Maryland Co...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Unordained Music Minister May Claim NJ Parsonage Exemption

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In Clover Hill Reformed Church v. Township of Hillsborough , (NJ Tax Ct., March 23, 2018), the New Jersey Tax court held that, even though h...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Christian Leaders Close Church of Holy Sepulcher In Protest of Israeli Tax and Land Policies

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Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian church leaders have closed the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (believed to be the site of Jesus...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Mosque's Property Tax Challenge Barred By Tax Injunction Act

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In Islamic Center of Nashville v. Sate of Tennessee , (6th Cir., Sept. 20, 2017), the U.S. 6th Circuit court of Appeals held that the federa...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

NJ Tax Court Says Church Had Not Stopped Using Area For Religious Purposes

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In Holy Trinity Baptist Church v. City of Trenton Block 26802, Lot 4 , (NJ Tax Ct. ,  Feb. 7, 2017), the New Jersey Tax Court held that the ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Bible-Based Daycare Denied Property Tax Exemption

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In Hamilton County Assessor v. Duke ,  (IN Tax Ct., Feb. 3, 2017), the Indiana Tax Court denied a property tax exemption to the owner of pro...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

New York's Tax Exemptions For Religious Property Are Growing

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The Lower Hudson Journal News this week is running a series on New York's tax exemption policy. An  overview of the series reports in p...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Does Sharia-Compliant Financing By Non-Profit Cause Loss of Property Tax Exemption?

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In what may well be a case of first impression, the Islamic Center of Nashville on Monday filed suit in a Tennessee federal district court c...