Nuns on the run from a potential tax bill. A local authority adding its own property arm to its tax map. A private golf course facing up to an “undue financial burden” if it must stump up. There are some of the more colourful cases from over 30 appeals filed by landowners over the past two weeks in the run up to the deadline to challenge inclusion in the residential-zoned land tax (RZLT) net.  The tax is a 3% levy on the value of undeveloped land. Its aim is to encourage residential development on serviced land amid a seemingly never-ending…

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