Another hospital is suing the city of Eau Claire over its property tax bill.
Marshfield Clinic this week filed a lawsuit that challenges its million-dollar tax bill. Marshfield says it is exempt from property taxes because it is a hospital, and it is a ‘benevolent facility devoted to the care of the sick, injured or disabled.’ The Mayo Clinic Health System filed a similar lawsuit against Eau Claire last month, claiming almost the exact same thing. Eau Claire’s defense there is that the hospital portion of the hospitals are exempt, but the office space, parking lots, and other pieces of the hospital’s property are not.
