Multnomah County v. Department of Revenue

Carl N. Byers, Judge Pro Tempore.

Multnomah County appeals from defendant’s Order No. VL 75-60, dated January 29, 1975. The Vedanta Society of Portland, Oregon, the taxpayer which was given affirmative relief by the Department of Revenue to its claim for exemption from real property assessments for the tax year 1973-1974, intervened. The order Multnomah County seeks to set aside held that 118.41 acres of property owned by the Vedanta Society of Portland, Oregon, was exempt from real property taxation on the grounds that it was “actually and exclusively occupied or used in * * * literary,…