TAX WATCH
Theme Park Exempt From Tax, Court Rules
By Elizabeth Schwinn
A Christian theme park is exempt from paying property taxes, a Florida circuit judge has ruled.
Judge Cynthia Z. MacKinnon said that the Holy Land Experience, a theme park in Orlando, Fla., run by the nonprofit group Zion's Hope, is closely tied to the charity's tax-exempt mission of spreading what it considers to be the word of God. The group therefore...
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