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Councilors discuss legislative fix for nonprofit property tax exemption, propose city abatement review
Summary
Committee members discussed concerns about the assessor’s interpretation of nonprofit property tax rules and a proposal to allow the city to perform an abatement review for nonprofits facing hardship rather than leaving them solely to court review; no bill had been filed as of the meeting.
Council members and city staff discussed ongoing, unsettled conversations about the nonprofit property tax exemption and whether the legislature should act to clarify eligibility rules.
Councilor Ben Grant outlined the problem as an interpretive change by the city assessor that some nonprofits and stakeholders view as outside established practice. He described a legislative workaround to give the city a role similar to the individual…
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