Tax Exemption and the Churches

Property tax exemption for nonprofit hospitals.

This article discusses management practices that hospital administrators can use to minimize the exposure to property taxation. First, the results of a national survey on the extensiveness of property tax exemption are reviewed. Next, a review of the history of recent developments in Utah is presented, including the recent ruling of the Utah State Supreme Court that "nonprofit" status does not ...

Tax exemption in a reformed healthcare system.

Nonprofit hospitals and the federal tax exemption: a fresh prescription.

The Welfare Economics of an Excise-Tax Exemption for Biofuels

A general theory is developed to analyze the efficiency and income distribution effects of a biofuel consumer tax credit and the interaction effects with a price contingent farm subsidy. Using the U.S. ethanol market as a stylized example, ethanol prices rise above the gasoline price by the amount of the tax credit. Corn farmers therefore gain directly while gasoline consumers only gain from an...

Tax-exemption for hospitals: towards an understanding of community benefit.