City Investigating Tax Exemptions for Anchorage Baptist Temple

Six properties have residents gaining equity without paying taxes

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Story Created: Jan 17, 2012 at 9:25 AM AKDT

Story Updated: Jan 17, 2012 at 9:25 AM AKDT

The city is investigating whether or not the Anchorage Baptist Temple should be paying taxes on properties that right now are tax-exempt.

Pastor Jerry Prevo says he hired two independent law firms – both of which he says found he was in compliance with the current law.

Currently, ABT has six properties where pastors or employees of the church are gaining equity, but not paying taxes.

As CBS 11 first reported in August, the city assessor began looking into the matter last summer, when critics of ABT’s property tax exemptions first raised the issue – that after the deals became public in divorce proceedings for Prevo’s son.

Reverend Prevo says now it’s up to the city to make the final ruling. Prevo says right now the church pays more than $45,000 a year in taxes on 14 properties.

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Help Them said on Wednesday, Jan 18 at 6:16 AM

I feel sorry for the congregation who have been deceived all these years.. their sense of failure and shame must be unbearable.. almost like those dogs who were recently rescued from that 'puppy-mill'

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Seperation of church and State said on Tuesday, Jan 17 at 6:33 PM

I keep hearing the same names over and over again in the news. What a shame if this is true. The church should be a place of integrity. Certainly not a place for politics and scandal.

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anon said on Tuesday, Jan 17 at 5:46 PM

This church and it's leadership have no sense of shame at all... their cult compound ought to pay taxes for all the years spent creating faith satan and demons pretending they were xtians

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