Do you mean to say that for profit, commercial entities actually pay for Police and Fire services? I don't think so. They pay as much as non-profit organizations, which do not pay taxes not because they are tax exempt, but because they do not have profits, you see, non-profit... If you or me do not make enough money to pay taxes we get the same service. It has nothing to do with the status. Now if you talk about tax exempt religious organizations, that is really different, they do make a profit and they do not pay taxes, so they do get free services.
Gerardo Razumney On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:33 PM, William H. Magill <mag...@mcgillsociety.org>wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2011, at 1:23 PM, maru ca wrote: > > > > > On Aug 9, 2011, at 11:52 AM, William H. Magill wrote: > > > >> In any event, it is good to see that Private Enterprise has decided to > "support" the shared vehicle model and be a tax paying, instead of tax > consuming entity. > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > Now this piques the curiosity. > > > > > > In what way was PCS a "tax consuming entity"? > > They get/got all of the benefits of city services (whichever they were) > without paying for them … Police, Fire, Trash… > > Virtually all Non-Profits consume tax dollars because they depend upon City > Services. Consequently the Tax Payers of the City get hit twice by them… > > Entities, like the University of Pennsylvania, who have their own Police > and Trash services, relying on the city only for Fire services are a > different issue. They don't consume tax-paid services to the same extent, > but do exempt massive chunks of property from Real Estate Taxes. (That I > know of, both Penn and Temple have "sworn" Police Departments, i.e. they > have full arrest powers. I don't know the status of Drexel's force > currently.) > > There are undoubtedly a few non-profits who do pay taxes, (and I realize > that "non-profit" and "tax-exempt" are not the same thing, but the sets > overlap a huge amount), but they are usually viewed by everyone but the > Taxman as the same thing, and act as if they are exempt. … which is > apparently how PhillyCarShare got into the predicament it wound up in. > > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > mag...@mcgillsociety.org > mag...@me.com > whmag...@gmail.com > > > > > ---- > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the > list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. >
