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Most non-profits not giving the city what it asked for in lieu of taxes

WBUR reports that while Tufts and Boston Medical Center paid 100% of the "payments in lieu of taxes" requested by the city, the ICA and Shriners Hospital paid nothing. The city asks for 25% of what the land-owning institutions would pay in property taxes if they were for-profit concerns.

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notes that the city requested 11.2 million from Northeastern this year but only 2.5 million in 2015? (The 2015 request is in a linked article at the bottom)

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You can read up on the PILOT Program here, with dollar amounts asked vs received.

https://www.boston.gov/departments/assessing/payment-lieu-tax-pilot-prog...

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How many of the churches, synagogues and mosques in Boston are paying. It's a percent so it shouldn't matter how big the org is, but somehow i bet our weak city officials exempted them while going after the arts and educational institutions, which are always an easy target for conservatives.

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Interesting -- it's listed as being for organizations that own more than $15M in property... but I would think there are any number of churches that have $15M of property. But it looks like the only religious organizations listed are hospitals operated by religious groups.

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Because we have so many "conservative" politicians in city govt.

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Ex politicians in academia!

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Daddy and I laugh about it every time we walk on the street the fools, I mean politicians, have given the Red Sox for free.

#metoo

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I can ask that car owners pay market rate for parking - voluntarily.

I can ask that anyone traveling to Canada pay MA sales tax on all their poutine purchases consumed in Quebec.

It doesn't make it a scandal when people do not do these things.

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I think this topic is above your pay grade... thanks for chiming with your hate for Canada and people who need cars for work though!

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I'm pretty sure these were non-opinion hypotheticals. But hey, do you.

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There are people in state government who think that anytime you buy something outside of MA, you should voluntarily pay MA taxes on it.

Read your tax form when you file it. It is all right there!

All right here, too: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20090826/NEWS/308269880

Because you should never leave the state to buy anything.

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So that is called a state use tax. What precisely is your point? It is legal but seldom followed, but again what was the relation to non-profits exemptions from fed and city taxes?

Are you going to pull out an expert tax opinion here?

Not like I work in the field or anything, so educate me...

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How many vacant or underutilized parcels does the city own which don't generate any economic activity or pay taxes?

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You mean instead of making them pay taxes you just ask for money and they don't give it to you?
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I have a friend who works for a college which gets a PILOT "bill." He shared with me a table which listed acreage and the suggested payment.

The payment per acre for his school was higher than that of many of the others. Why pay if the city is going to ostensibly pull figures out of thin air?

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Which school? An acre at Suffolk is going to have a higher value, and therefore a higher tax bill, than an acre at BC.

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Some parts of Boston (and their buildings) are more valuable than others.

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And also, there are write-offs you can get if you're using the land for various charitable purchases. It could just be that this college Will mentions isn't doing as much of that as some of the other institutions.

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How many city owned parcels have been sold to tax exempt entities over the past 5-10 years. If they wont willingly pay taxes, don't allow them to bid on city land....

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The way land prices have been, I don't think the city would generally be giving/selling parcels to non-profits. They real money is selling it to developers. (Yes I bet there are cases where the city sold/gave land to a non-profit who then built low income housing on the land, but that's OK by me.)

I WILL agree that the city has a fair amount of underutilized property that they should be more pro-active about getting rid of.

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Non profits with boards of directors and high salaries are really no different than capitalist firms except that their commodity is morality. Most of the big ones in this city are building little empires.

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vol·un·tar·y

/ˈvälənˌterē/

adjective

adjective: voluntary

1.
done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
"we are funded by voluntary contributions"

synonyms: optional, discretionary, elective, noncompulsory, volitional; permissive
"attendance is voluntary"

Enough said.

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"Incentives" is number two.

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Not For Profit is a Tax Status, NOT a Mandate from God.

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