"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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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)