Property tax exemptions for homes owned by clergy members in Nassau County shifted more than $463 million in valuation onto other taxpayers last year, more than double the amount in 2008, a Newsday analysis of state records shows.
The growing shift in the tax burden came as the number of clergy with the exemptions nearly doubled — from 446 in 2008 to 830 in 2018, records show.
The $463 million in clergy exemptions in Nassau in 2018 was 78 percent of the $594.2 million in value shifted statewide because of the clergy exemption. In 2008, $215.8 million was the value of the clergy-owned property exempted from the Nassau tax rolls.
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