Disney property tax lawsuits over three Magic Kingdom area hotels have been settled for 2015 through 2020. Walt Disney World resolved six years of cases covering the Grand Floridian, the Polynesian Village and the Contemporary, and the agreements cut the values the Orange County Property Appraiser put on the first two resorts by about $767 million.
Judge Margaret H. Schreiber signed all six judgments this week, Blog Mickey reports, closing out Disney’s challenges for those tax years. Disney filed one lawsuit for each year, starting in June 2016 and ending in June 2021, and every complaint named the same three monorail resorts.
The Grand Floridian Took The Biggest Cut
Most of the reduction comes from the Grand Floridian. Its just value drops by about $693.5 million across the six years, a 23% cut overall. The biggest drops land early: a third of the value came off for both 2015 and 2016, and the cut shrinks each year after that, down to 10% for 2020.
The Polynesian’s numbers move far less but hold steady, with a 7% cut every year for a total of about $74.1 million. The Contemporary comes away with nothing. Every judgment leaves its original values in place, and the court had already thrown out Disney’s claim on that parcel for 2015.
Disney argued that the appraiser valued the hotels above market value and improperly counted intangible property. It is the latest in a run of Disney property tax wins, following the case that reduced Art of Animation’s value.
What It Means For Disney’s Tax Bill
The size of those numbers does not translate into a refund of the same size. Disney had already paid every tax bill in full while the cases were open, and each judgment leaves the assessed value, which is what the bill is built on, unchanged. How much money, if any, comes back to Disney may never be made public.
The settlements also come with limits. Neither side admits fault, and the judgments cannot be used as evidence of any property’s value in another tax year or case.
More Cases Close, And More Remain Open
Judge Schreiber also dismissed five other Disney tax cases the same morning, filed between 2022 and 2024. Those were dismissed with prejudice, so Disney cannot bring them again, and each side covers its own legal fees. The orders do not say which properties were involved.
That still leaves plenty on the docket. Disney filed more than a dozen new lawsuits in December 2025 over assessed values that total more than $5.4 billion, and many of those cases do not have court dates until 2027.
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