Holy Land Museum Fights for Tax Exemption

ORLANDO-It’s a matter of semantics and numbers and no matter how Orange County Property Appraiser Bill Donegan will rule shortly, somebody is going to be unhappy–particularly since the tax exemption ruling on the Holy Land Experience could come right at Easter.

The ruling is bound to be one of the most controversial in recent commercial real estate annals in Central Florida, brokers and tax specialists familiar with other tourist ventures tell GlobeSt.com.

“Right now, there is nothing with which to compare this project in the entire United States and that is bound to make the property appraiser’s decision a precedent-setting action,” an area real estate lawyer tells GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.