Stamp duty, transfer tax, property tax: what buyers and sellers actually owe on a Jamaican property transaction, and the one major tax, capital gains, that Jamaica simply does not charge.

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Landlords in Trinidad and Tobago will pay a new surcharge on their gross rental income from 1…

A New Jersey tax court voided a surprise property tax bill on a Methodist property, ruling that missing a form is not grounds to lose an exemption without an actual change of use or ownership.

Indiana’s tax review board granted a South Bend Methodist church a full 2025 property tax exemption for the house where its ordained pastor lives, after the church filed a sworn parsonage affidavit.

Jerusalem’s churches, exempt from property tax since Ottoman times, now face Arnona demands on monasteries, residences and guesthouses, and the city froze the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate’s bank accounts in the dispute.

The town of Wilton, Connecticut, is suing the company that bought its former 1864 Baptist church for $500,000 for $142,708.89 in back property taxes, saying the church’s religious exemption should have ended at the sale.

Nicaragua has repealed the tax exemption for churches and religious bodies, which now face income tax of up to 30 per cent, as President Ortega’s government also shut 151 more NGOs in a wider crackdown on civil society.

Iqaluit’s city council ended churches’ automatic property tax exemption, requiring them to apply for capped relief of $300,000 a year for all groups, prompting a Catholic priest to call the move unfair.

A United Church of Christ conference guide explains that Massachusetts exempts houses of worship and occupied parsonages from property tax, but warns that renting church space to others can lead to full or partial loss of the exemption.