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Property-Tax Exemption for Charities
Evelyn Brody
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Paperback. Series: Urban Institute Press. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
If "all politics is local," then no tax issue is more political than the property tax. This explains the battles that are being fought countrywide over the exemption enjoyed by nonprofit organizations. Property taxes fall on local populations, while the benefits of a charity's activities can be spread more broadly. And as property-owning charities such as hospitals, universities, and cultural institutions have transformed themselves into big businesses, the exemption has come to be viewed as a subsidy granted by government. Recently, opposition from revenue-starved local governments has mounted, in the form of frontal attacks on the charity exemption and demands ... Read more
If "all politics is local," then no tax issue is more political than the property tax. This explains the battles that are being fought countrywide over the exemption enjoyed by nonprofit organizations. Property taxes fall on local populations, while the benefits of a charity's activities can be spread more broadly. And as property-owning charities such as hospitals, universities, and cultural institutions have transformed themselves into big businesses, the exemption has come to be viewed as a subsidy granted by government. Recently, opposition from revenue-starved local governments has mounted, in the form of frontal attacks on the charity exemption and demands ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Urban Institute Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Series
Urban Institute Press
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780877667063
SKU
V9780877667063
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