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Hospital Charitable Tax Exemption Upheld by Illinois Appellate Court

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Last month, in the case Carle Foundation v. Dept. of Revenue, the Fourth District Court of Appeals issued its latest decision regarding hospital property tax exemptions. The Court upheld a trial court judgment awarding the...more

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Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois Filed Amicus Brief Challenging Review of Tax Tribunal Decisions

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Jones Day filed an amicus brief in the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois regarding the standard of review for Illinois Tax Tribunal decisions. On behalf of the Taxpayers' Federation...more

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Illinois Nonprofit Hospital Property Tax Exemptions Upheld

On September 20, 2018, the Illinois Supreme Court published its opinion in Oswald v. Hamer, which upheld Section 15-86 of the Illinois Property Tax Code (“Section 15-86”), an Illinois statute that provides for a charitable...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Hospital Property Tax Exemption Law

In the closely watched Oswald v. Beard case decided last Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 law which grants a hospital charitable property tax exemption if the value of...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Finds Hospital Tax Exemption Constitutional

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Yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision in Oswald v. Hamer marking the latest chapter in a controversy dating to 2003. The decision finds that Section 15-86 of the Illinois Property Tax Code, which provides a...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument on Hospital Property Tax Exemptions

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Yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court heard oral argument in Oswald v. Beard, a case challenging the constitutionality of the statute exempting most hospitals from paying any property taxes. ...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Grants Petition to Appeal Ruling on Constitutionality of Illinois Hospitals’ Property Tax Exemption Law

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Illinois hospitals continue to face uncertainty regarding the law under which they may seek exemption from property taxes. As reported in our March 30, 2017, Health Law Alert, the Illinois Supreme Court declined to rule on...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Constitutionality of Illinois Hospitals' Property Tax Exemption Law

There have been two new developments in the long running saga over a charitable property tax exemption for hospitals in Illinois....more

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IL Supreme Court Avoids Ruling on Constitutionality of Hospital Exemption

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The Illinois Supreme Court has issued an opinion in Carle Foundation v. Cunningham Township, the case involving the constitutionality of the statute granting hospitals a special property tax exemption. In remanding this case...more

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The Latest on Property Tax Exemptions for Illinois Hospitals

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Recently, there have been several noteworthy developments in the controversy surrounding property tax exemptions for Illinois hospitals. For the past decade we’ve been providing updates as this issue progressed through the...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Finds Special Exemption Unconstitutional

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Last Thursday the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a special property tax exemption for a single aeronautical services company operating out of the Quad City International Airport. As noted in the July 2015 FR Alert...more

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Class Action Lawsuit Seeks Payments from All Illinois Hospitals for Unconstitutional Tax Exemption

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You can add one more lawsuit to the mountain of litigation concerning how and when Illinois hospitals are entitled to a property tax exemption. Earlier this month a limited partnership filed a class action lawsuit naming...more

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