APPEAL OF EMISSARIES OF DIVINE LIGHT

No. 94-291.

140 N.H. 552 (1995)

APPEAL OF EMISSARIES OF DIVINE LIGHT (New Hampshire Board of Tax and Land Appeals)

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 27, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of K.S. Williams-Hardy, of Epping (Kathryn Swain Williams on the brief and orally), for the Emissaries of Divine Light.

McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, P.A., of Manchester (Arthur G. Greene and Maria Holland Law on the brief, and Mr. Greene orally), for the Town of Epping.

H. Bernard Waugh, Jr., of Concord, by brief for the New Hampshire Municipal Association, as amicus curiae.


THAYER, J.

The taxpayer, the Emissaries of Divine Light, appeals an order of the New Hampshire Board of Tax and Land Appeals (board) awarding it a partial exemption from property taxes for the 1990 and 1991 tax years. The taxpayer argues that it is entitled to full tax exemption and that apportionment is inappropriate in religious exemption cases. It also argues that the board violated its first amendment rights under the Federal Constitution. We affirm.

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