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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...
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...
Although only the Harvard Combined Charities has been permitted to conduct door-to-door drives in recent years, the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs voted last night to exempt the Harvard University Committee for the Kennedy Memorial Library from this restriction for a three-day drive next week...
...world's most striking nation - in a way that vastly irritates most Australians. In the last three months more than 100,000 workers have walked out in 379 strikes, and there are more than six new work stop pages in Australia every day. No industry is exempt from the strikers' whim. Since March 5, 800 Brisbane butchers have been on strike, and fortnight ago a strike of 2,700 mail sorters piled up 16 million letters and packages in the Sydney post office. Strikes have not only cost workers almost $2,000,000 in wages since 1964 began...