Category: PILOTs
12 May, 2011 (10:59) | Boston, Innovations, Local issues, Massachusetts, Non-Profits, PILOTs, Real estate taxes, Speculation, Theory, US News, Zoning |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith “If they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” Yesterday’s post (Part 3) established that, as a sympathetic Boston Globe article seems to believe, if the City of Boston can shift the debate away from [...]
11 May, 2011 (10:16) | Boston, Innovations, Local issues, Massachusetts, Non-Profits, PILOTs, Real estate taxes, Speculation, Theory, US News, Zoning |
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] “I walk on untrodden ground.” – George Washington In the two preceding posts, using a recent Boston Globe article, we saw Boston declare fiscal war on its large land-owning non-profits (Part 1), upsetting a status quo that has persisted for [...]
10 May, 2011 (16:46) | Boston, Innovations, Local issues, Massachusetts, Non-Profits, PILOTs, Real estate taxes, Speculation, Theory, US News, Zoning |
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington Yesterday’s blog post, the first in a four-part series on the opening of a decadal war over the property taxation of real-estate-owning non-profits, opened with the Boston Globe‘s report [...]
9 May, 2011 (13:52) | Boston, Innovations, Local issues, Massachusetts, Non-Profits, PILOTs, Real estate taxes, Speculation, Theory, US News, Zoning |
By: David A. Smith Not all wars start with grand strategic plans. A small-scale skirmish in Concord can come in retrospect to mark the start of a revolution – if that first spark is followed by a larger conflagration. The tax collectors are coming! The tax collectors are coming! A year ago, [...]