New Orleans Talking recently about greater accountability for nonprofit hospitals with a health expert from Massachusetts, she kept bringing up PILOT programs and why they were important in funding health care expansion in her state. PILOT in the tax world stands for “payments in lieu of taxes.” It perked my interest to find out how …
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Whining of Charities is Unseemly
Gulfport The recently approved tax bill is an abomination without any doubt. It’s claims of reform are a poorly crafted mask for a transfer of wealth from virtually all of us over the coming years to the coffers of the rich and corporations. Despite a couple of public relations stunts based largely on favorable tax …
Nonprofits May Be Able to Go Politically Wild Thanks to House Republicans
New Orleans The “law of unintended consequences” is not one that was passed by the US House of Representatives and its far right, ideological Republican majority, but it is certainly one that they might soon learn at their peril. One of the many hidden time bombs in their recent tax bill, now heading towards …