Manila Seedling Bank
environmental center in Quezon City, Philippines
The Manila Seedling Bank Foundation, Inc. (MSBFI) was a nonprofit organization in the Philippines. It maintained a plant nursery or environmental center in Quezon City until 2013. The foundation had a legal issue with the local government of Quezon City regarding the taxation of its environmental center, which resulted in its closing.
A land area of 7 hectares (0.027 sq mi) in the corners of EDSA and Quezon Avenue in Quezon City, owned by the National Housing Authority, was granted usufructuary rights for the MSBFI as an environmental center in 1977 for 50 years through a Presidential Proclamation. The area was declared tax-exempt, but new legislation in Quezon City eventually declared the MSBFI property subject to paying taxes. The Quezon City government auctioned the property but eventually forfeited it to the local government. In 2013 and 2014, the Quezon City local government occupied the property and displaced tenants for failure to pay taxes. A 2024 Supreme Court ruling declared that the Quezon City government "wrongfully foreclosed" the property and invalidated their takeover of the property on the basis that the Quezon City legislation is not superior to national legislation.
The environmental center was planned for development after the takeover.
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