A February Policy Brief detailed an executive order from the mayor of Pittsburgh that called for a review of tax-exempt property owned by purely public
Noting that non-profits in the City of Pittsburgh own a lot of property and employ a lot of people but are tax exempt and not a lot of them participate in helping the City through payments in lieu of taxes, a state Senator has supported extending Pittsburgh’s Payroll Preparation Tax (PPT) to non-profits having 250 or more employees.
Allegheny County Council held a public hearing recently regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, better known as UPMC. Based on the motion passed by Council in November the purpose of the hearing was “…to allow the opportunity for public comment regarding the tax exempt status of property owned by [UPMC] within Allegheny County pursuant to the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act”.
Another City Council plan to extract money from higher education in Pittsburgh has surfaced. Under the plan proffered by Mr. Burgess the City will negotiate
Will there be signs of an identity crisis at County Council’s regular business meeting tomorrow night? On the one hand, Council is scheduled to take
Pittsburgh has 15 closed school buildings and is about to add seven more to the list. City Council members now want to see studies of
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County are planning to revisit the issue of whether some large non-profit organizations in the City should have their property tax exempt
All non-profit property is exempt from taxation, but not all tax-exempt property is exclusively non-profit. That’s one of the important layers that have to be
If you had a relatively new and shiny airport and there was no interest-none whatsoever-from people in the hotel industry to build a hotel to
Back in May of this year we wrote a blog entry on a report by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy about the characteristics of
