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"State and Local Budget Pressures: the Charitable Property-Tax Exemption and PILOTs"

Monday, May 21, 2012
at the Urban Institute
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Speaker Bios


CONFERENCE MATERIALS

Panel 1: The Current Landscape
Who wins and who loses from exemption?

Moderator:
Elizabeth Boris, Urban Institute

Panelist:
- Evelyn Brody, Chicago-Kent College of Law

• Selected Recent Bibliography on Property-Tax Exemption For Charities and Payments in Lieu
  of Taxes (PILOTs)

- Rick Cohen, Nonprofit Quarterly

- Joseph Cordes, George Washington University

• The Nonprofit Property Tax Exemption: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and by How Much?

- Thomas Longoria, Texas State University

• Tables on PILOTs

Panel 2: Focus on Eds and Meds
A focus on the current major pressure points: nonprofit hospitals and colleges and universities.

Moderator:
Roger Colinvaux, Columbia School of Law, Catholic University of America

Panelist:
- Woods Bowman, DePaul University

• Property Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Hospitals

- Matt Hamill, National Association of College and University Business Officers

- Keith Hearle, Verite Healthcare Consulting

Panel 3: Negotiated Payments in Lieu of Taxes as the Wave of the Future?
Will global solutions remain elusive? Will we see more use of “voluntary” PILOTs? What should a well-designed PILOT program look like, and how should it be created?

Moderator:
David Brunori, State Tax Notes

Panelist:
- G. Reynolds Clark, on behalf of the Pittsburgh Public Service Fund, University of Pittsburgh

- Daphne Kenyon, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

• Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Balancing Municipal and Nonprofit Interests
• And related report (with Adam Langley) can be downloaded for free here.

- Ron Rakow, City of Boston

• Boston’s Payment in Lieu of Tax Program: A Review of the Program’s Development,
  Implementation and Results
• Boston PILOT Task Force Recommendations

- David Thompson, National Council of Nonprofits

 

Past Events

"Budget Pressure and Changing the Charitable Deduction:
For Better or Worse?"

Friday, October 7, 2011
from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm (EST)
View the Agenda

For conference materials and audio, see the event page.

"What's Been Happening to Charitable Giving in Recent Years and in the Great Recession:
A Look at the Data"

Thursday, August 25, 2011
from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST)
View the Agenda.

For roundtable materials, see the event page.

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