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un-freakin'-believable...CT PING!
Perry said the church created the situation, by failing to contest the tax bill it received last July.
"It seems so absurd," church moderator George Peteros said, that a church building assessed at $1.5 million could go to auction to recoup less than $5,000 in taxes.
The city maintains that any space not exclusively used for religious purposes, even if it generates no income, is taxable according to state law.
However, it sounds like the church simply ignored the bill rather than contesting it. I imagine it happened out of confusion rather than as a protest against the assessment.
The church needed to fight the assessment or pay it. They can't just ignore it.
This mess makes for sensational headlines, especially since it New London, however this really seems more of a way for the city to force the church to address this issue.
The church isn't going to get sold to pay this tiny sum unless they continue to ignore their responsibility to address the issue. It doesn't sound like that's the case.
However, they may have to pay that tax assessment and the accompanying fines and fees immediately since they neglected to address this, and then fight the issue of the future status in court.
they take people's homes, why wouldn't they take away churches?
New London: Becasue Kelo was just not enough.
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