Nearly two millennia ago, Jesus of Nazareth sagely taught his followers to “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.” In the 21st century it appears that the Commonwealth Court had similar advice for a Cheltenham, Pa., congregation of the First Korean Church of New York in the recent matter of First Korean Church of New York Inc. v. Montgomery County Board of Assessment Appeals .
In that case, defendants the Montgomery County Board of Assessment Appeals, Cheltenham Township, Cheltenham Township School District, Montgomery County and the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners — collectively referred to as “the government” — sought to collect property taxes on the real estate used by the church. The church, of course, argued that it was entitled to a tax exemption as a principal place of religious worship. The issue of whether the church was entitled to an exemption to the taxes the government sought forms the dispute addressed by the court in the case.
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