Rhode Island Healthcare Group Loses Property Tax Exemption Bid

A Rhode Island healthcare provider failed to convince the state high court that an administrative building shouldn’t be assessed for property taxes under the group’s legislature-granted exemption.

The group’s specific legal exemption applies to “real and tangible personal property of The Providence Community Health Centers, Inc., a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Providence, Rhode Island.” The healthcare center asked the justices to overturn a superior court ruling that the law’s language didn’t extend to its administrative building in Warwick, R.I.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court rejected in a ruling Friday the center’s argument that the statutory language exempted ...