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"Private Property Leased to For-Profit School Not Tax-exempt in Ohio"

This post was written by Chuck Kallendorf: "In a ruling that could be catastrophic for some charter schools, the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday said a property tax exemption for public schools does not extend to property leased to a "school for profit," following the precedent it had set back in its 1874 case, Gerke v. Purcell, between the City and Cincinnati Archdiocese.

The case here in point, the Court's summary explained, "involved for-profit company, Anderson/Maltbie Partnership (AMP), leased property from October 1999 through October 2004 to a nonprofit corporation, which in turn used the property to operate a community or charter school called the Cincinnati College Preparatory Academy (CCPA). Under the lease agreement, CCPA paid AMP $275,000 a year for the use of the building..."

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Source: Hamilton County Law Library Blog, 13 October 2010. Reproduced with permission.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).