New Orleans Museum Can Get Partial Tax Break, State Judges Say

A middle ground is available in a long-running dispute over whether a hotel’s close connection to the National World War II Museum entitles it to tax-exempt status, a Louisiana appeals court ruled.

The parties made black-and-white arguments: the museum argued that a full exemption is appropriate, while Orleans Parish Assessor Erroll Williams argued for no exemption. But the Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, rejected both parties’ insistence that a there can be no partial exemption from personal property and real property taxes for a nonprofit entity.

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