Retirement Homes of the Detroit Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Inc v. Sylvan Township

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• concluding that the petitioner’s retirement home provided no gift to residents and therefore was not charity
• “A property tax exemption is in derogation of the principle that all property shall bear a proportionate share of the tax burden and, consequently, a tax exemption will be strictly construed.”
• “A property tax exemption is in derogation of the principle that all property shall bear a proportionate share of the tax burden and, consequently, a tax exemption will be strictly construed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).