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Arts Group Fights to Keep Tax-Exempt Status

By Elizabeth Schwinn

Facing the loss of its exemption from state taxes, a New Hampshire artists' colony has gone to court to argue that it qualifies as a charity and should not be required to pay more than $150,000 in annual property taxes to the town where it is located.

Representatives of the MacDowell Colony — a residential program for artists...

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