Governments Finding Creative Ways to Chip away at Tax Exemptions - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Governments Finding Creative Ways to Chip away at Tax Exemptions - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: “Where will it end?” asks Jon Pratt in relation to the proliferating practice of municipalities coming up with all kinds of devices to tax nonprofits (full disclosure: although he had no involvement in this newswire whatsoever, Jon Pratt is an editorial advisor for Nonprofit Quarterly). Pratt, the executive director of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, lists only some of the various instruments local governments have come up with as mandatory taxes on nonprofit property owners that are, under the law, exempt from property taxes: “Snow removal fees? Street maintenance fees? Lighting fees? You could take the entire municipal budget and divide it into a thousand pieces. Then the whole concept of tax exempt is gone.”