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Board splits on retroactive exemptions for church-owned vacant lots; matter returned next month
Summary
The board deadlocked 2–2 on whether to allow retroactive property-tax exemptions for three vacant lots owned by Universal Church of the First Born Saints; board members noted a conditional deed from a surplus sale and directed the applicant to resolve title conditions with the treasurer.
Representatives of Universal Church of the First Born Saints asked the Marion County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals to make exemptions retroactive for three vacant parcels the church acquired in county surplus sales.
The church representative said the parcels were purchased in 2015 and 2018 and that the congregation had assumed they were tax-exempt; he told the board, “We have 3 empty parcels” and that the church intended to develop the lots into…
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