"You can start your own business with no risk and no loans by using taxpayers’ money and be your own boss. Then you can pay yourself a nice salary and supplement that with expense accounts..... The more non-profits a state funds, the higher its taxes will be for each and every citizen"
"This unrelated business income tax for nonprofits is hardly new, but in practice has been only loosely enforced--if only because of the inherent difficulty in judging an income-producing activity's relationship to the organization's exempt purpose."
"Unlike for-profit businesses, most “tax-exempt”, nonprofit organizations do not pay property taxes, Federal income taxes, or sales taxes– as long as the income of the nonprofit relates to its mission."
"The sharing of tax burdens is a fundamental part of self-interest on all sides of democracy's many-sided table..... Hence, the relationship between local government and nonprofits..... must reflect the needs of the community in its entirety, not simply the needs of the nonprofit's balance sheet."
"On average, total property-tax exemptions to charities was about 1.2 percent of city budgets, according to the survey, and about 0.6 percent of property tax assessments, which represent the value of buildings and land on tax rolls."
"The nonprofit sector is being pressed to be more business-like and to find new ways to fill the gaps between what government will pay and what services cost, but then assessors want to treat us like businesses, which pay taxes"
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Should Nonprofits Pay Tax?
Taxes for Nonprofits?
http://www.onphilanthropy.com/site/News2?id=6189&page=NewsArticle
To Tax or Not to Tax Nonprofits? Cities Ask the Billion-Dollar Question (Published 2007)
Tax Exemptions of Charities Face New Challenges (Published 2008)