PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s highest court has upheld a lower-court ruling that exempts certain properties at Hebron Academy from property taxes even though they’re rented for outside use.
The town of Hebron had appealed a Superior Court judgment that the private boarding school in Hebron was a “literary and scientific” institution and that most of its real estate was exempt from local property taxes.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday affirmed the ruling, saying the rental use of the properties doesn’t detract from their primary use in serving the school’s educational mission.
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