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SD: Municipality ignores law, hands church $17,000 tax bill

By Alliance Alert

CitizenLink: "[Joe Infranco], senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), has seen a marked uptick in the number of cases handled by ADF?s 1,800 allied attorneys, who represent churches free of charge. 'Whether out of ignorance or malice, (municipalities) are slowly chipping away at the Church?s tax exemption when and where they are able,' said Infranco. 'This is a very dangerous trend.' Just this week, an ADF-allied attorney filed an appeal in a South Dakota state court on behalf of First Evangelical Free Church of Rapid City, S.D., after the Pennington County Board of Commissioners refused to dismiss a $17,000 property tax bill for land the church purchased in 2006." | ADF News Release

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).