Tax Exemption for Religious Institutions
'Constitutionally Mandatory' -- COLPA
NEW YORK (Yr..%) — The Na- the religious purpose for which
tional Jewish CommiSsion on Law the building is to be used Such
and Public Affairs announced that a singling out of religious activity
it had filed a "friend of the court" and property necessary for the
brief in a suit before the United exercise of religion would . . . be
States Supreme Court which con- impermissibly discriminatory."
tends that exemption from real
The nine organizations joining
estate taxes for religious institu- in the COLPA brief were listed as
tions violates the Constitution's the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of
church-state separation principle.
the United States and Canada.
Julius Berman, COLPA presi- Agudath Israel of America, Na-
dent, said his brief had been filed tional Council of Young Israel.
on behalf of COLPA and nine Poalei Agudath Israel of America,
other national Jewish organiza- Rabbinical, Alliance of America,
tions. The brief argues that "tax Rabbinical Council of America,
exemption for property owned by Religious Zionists of America,
religious corporations and associa- Torah Umesorah — the National
tions is constitutionally manda- Society for Hebrew Day Schools,
tor•." Several Jewish organiza-
tions have filed similar briefs.
The suit before the Supreme
Court, which Berman said was
considered one of the most impor-
tant church-state tests to come
before the court in this decade,
was brought by Frederick Walz.
a New York taxpayer. He sued
the New York City Tax Commis-
sion, claiming that the tax exemp-
tion he was attacking violated the
First Amendment.
and the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America,
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Berman said the COLPA brief
declares that New York's consti-
tutional and statutory taxing
provisions "do not grant a
unique or peculiar tax status to
religious corporations vis-a-vis
other charities which are not
religious by nature. They sim-
ply assign property owned by
religious organizations precisely
the same tax status as that
enjoyed by secular nonprofit
charitable and educational insti-
tutions."
He added that the COLPA brief
contends that "a denial of tax
exemption on account of the reli-
gious nature of the claimant orga-
nization would violate the First
and 14th amendments. If tax ex-
emption were denied to synagogue
and church property while being
retained for buildings operated for
'scientific, literary, bar associa-
tion, library, patriotic (and) his-
torical' purposes or - for nonreli-
gious 'charitable' and 'benevolent'
purposes (including those devoted
to 'moral or mental improvement
of men and women'), it would only
be because of the religious nature
of the owning organization and
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