Strange formatting going to InDesign tagged text

[RPaulH]

This is probably an InDesign issue, but I will post here first anyway. We are exporting data to ID as tagged text and that process is fine except for one thing. Any extra characters I have added (eg: paragraph symbols, spaces, etc) show up in ID with a leading value of 14.4. The other elements have a leading of 10.8 which causes the last line of the paragraph to have extra space above it. I have put these elements before and after I closed the tags, but nothing changes. Have placed in a template and a new layout with the same results. Help!