National Taxpayers Union

The tax-policy researcher talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the appropriate level and nature of nonprofit organizations’ Payments in Lieu of Taxation (PILOTs) to municipalities and whether they’ll become a benchmark for imposing actual outright taxes on nonprofits or perhaps even evolve into a broader-based challenge to exemption.

The tax-policy researcher talks to Michael E. Hartmann about nonprofit organizations’ Payments in Lieu of Taxation (PILOT) agreements with municipalities and what they say, if anything, about what many consider to be, and want to protect as, the inviolability of charitable tax-exemption.