04/30/2025
Taxes
It’s not easy making these posts.
I know it’s been a while since we updated everyone about the township situation we are dealing with.
We’ve been trying to work things out with the town and our attorneys but we’ve come to the realization it’s not working and we have to go to tax court.
He’s what’s going on.
Last year the town removed part of our exempt status on our property a month before the end of the year to force us into tax sale.
We’ve since hired lawyers and appealed the tax rate so our entire property would be exempt under our 501c3 not for profit organization. The town, unhappy that we did this, counter appealed to remove any tax free benefit from our property so they can charge us the full taxes of $18k per year citing a few weak excuses.
The issue is that we must now go into tax court and litigate this which is going to be a very costly and time consuming process.
Our lawyers have been phenomenal with helping us but a large tax court litigation is very expensive.
Our attorneys are very confident that we will win and we have case law on our side, however there is no quick way to do this without a tax court litigation, which is exactly what the town wants.
Then we have the other issue where the township is saying we can’t have a farm on our property for some reason. Again, another weak case, but something we still have to address and represent in court which will also cost us more money.
There is no easy way around this, our legal bills and the taxes is going to run upwards of $40k.
This is in addition to our ongoing costs of feeding and caring for our rescues.
I know this is a huge amount, but we just cannot shoulder all these costs alone.
We will be unable to continue our operations if we don’t have help with this.
It’s ridiculous that the town is costing us so much money but guess what, their lawyers and officials are all getting paid, and that’s coming from yours and our tax dollars.
Let’s put our money to better use!
If we can get 4,000 people to give $10 that would save our sanctuary.
We will be putting every single penny we make from admissions , sponsorships and donations towards this huge bill.
We have to hit this number by September to file the paperwork or we will be forced to close down by the township.
We cannot climb this hill alone.
We need your help and. If you love animals and believe in us , please help and share share share so we can get the word out.
We have setup a new go fund me that can be shared as much as possible.
Link is https://gofund.me/7481d7b5
Payments can still be made via PayPal Zelle or Venmo to [email protected]
We will be posting this campaign daily until September to please help us get this word out and help our animals keep their home!
Please help us by contributing, sharing our gofundme or any other way you can think to help us raise these funds.
All donations are 100% tax deductible and receipts can be provided.
If anyone has question or wants details on anything please email us, [email protected], we will gladly show you all the information.
Please keep the comments clear of hate or inflammatory comments so we don’t have to disable them.
Thank you for everyone and everything!
I know we are doing the right thing, that is why we are fighting so hard for this!
Please share our link, we have 5 months to reach our goal!
https://gofund.me/7481d7b5
