Word: exempt
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...clause that may specifically affect Harvard states that "rental units in any college or school dormitory operated exclusively for charitable or educational purpose" shall be exempt form rent control. The Cambridge rent administrator will have to decide whether or not such housing as Peabody Terrace will fall under this ill-defined category. Cronin has already stated that he interprets the law to mean that such housing would not be covered by rent control...
...state has also exempted from rent control all units built after January 1, 1969, all government-owned or operated units, and owner-occupied two- and three-family dwellings. In addition to these exemptions the rent administrator will have to interpret one of the state's more ambiguous provisions which states "that a municipality accepting this act may exempt those rental units for which the rent charge exceeds limits specified by said municipality provided that no more than twenty-five per cent of the total rental units be exempted under this section." Apparently this means that the administrator may fix higher...
...little more than two years of operation, firms like Washington's Center for Law and Social Policy have scored courtroom victories against such giants as General Motors and the rich, tough oil industry. They have stayed alive largely on their eager enthusiasm and their tax-exempt status as charitable organizations...
First Amendment Threat. Last month their opponents got some help from an unexpected source: the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS announced that it was starting a 60-day study that would decide whether to revoke the tax-exempt status of public-interest firms such as those taking corporations to court on pollution and consumer issues. At the same time, the IRS froze applications pending the study's completion. Although corporations routinely deduct legal fees as business expenses, IRS officials suggested that the law firms' tax exemption may wrongly support only one side to a lawsuit in cases where...
...preview of how the IRS could block the efforts of an ecology-minded legal organization was shown early this year, when the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. made an application to the IRS for tax-exempt status. N.R.D.C. lawyers claim they were told that they would be granted the exemption for legal activities only if they cleared prospective lawsuits beforehand. N.R.D.C. says that one of its proposed suits, contesting strip-mining practices in Kentucky, has already been effectively vetoed...