Supreme Court Considers Definition of Religious Organizations in Wisconsin Tax Exemption Case

[Stan]

The Supreme Court tackles a key constitutional question: what qualifies an entity as "religious" under the law, challenging Wisconsin's denial of tax exemptions to Catholic Charities.

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[Asia Joe]

Interesting. Let's see what they decide. It may have far-reaching impact.

In Michigan, when I was there, the local governments would charge property tax on buildings, unless you could prove they were used for religious reasons. Even though it was owned by the church. 

Most local governments charged property tax on buildings that offered daycare services.

Then there is the famous case of 3ABN being charged property taxes on all of their facilities because they had some non-religious programming on their system.  They changed their programming and added a church to the property.  They had to sue to stop it, and they won if I remember correctly.