Word: exempt
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...quite sure how much potential revenue is involved. One study shows that church groups own 14% of all taxable property in Pennsylvania, 17% in Maryland, 18% in New Jersey. In other areas, churches own relatively little of total tax-exempt property; in Baltimore, for example, where $528 million worth of property is taxexempt, only $80 million worth is owned by churches (schools and hospitals account for much of the rest). Even so, few dispute the fact that church property is widely undervalued...
Some churches-notably the Methodists and United Presbyterians-concede that there is an inequity in the laws and either pay their full taxes or a sum equivalent to levies from which they are exempt. But a majority of the clergy probably agree with Mrs. Murray's Baltimore opponents, who are determined to battle her up to the Supreme Court over what one Roman Catholic lawyer sees as "the beginning of a hostile interpretation of the First Amendment." Says he: "As a person, Mrs. Murray is not important. But what she's trying to do is important...
...main streets in Rome's three-square-mile central area, all parking-even stopping-was banned. Everywhere else, parking was limited to an hour, and all parked cars were required to display cardboard disks showing the hour of arrival and the hour of expiration. Not even M.D.s were exempt. "A doctor can do almost anything in an hour," a traffic official declared. At the same time, a fleet of midget buses was launched to ferry people from parking areas on the edge of the disk zone to the center of the city...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said last night Harvard neither pays taxes nor makes any payments in lieu of taxes on the property since the land's tax exempt status is guaranteed by the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...noted that the University usually made payments in lieu of taxes on revenue producing property such as apartment buildings, but that the Constitution was quite specific and emphatic about the land's tax-free status. "It is not simply a regular tax-exempt property," he said...