Word: kaprielian
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...main result of the conflict is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rachel Kaprielian (D-Watertown) that would allow a city to collect property taxes when a non-profit purchases more than 2.5 percent of the tax base. The bill would discourage the founding of large charitable institutions in Massachusetts or the expansion of old ones, and all in all it’s a terrible idea. What the state government should be considering instead is a bill that would reimburse municipalities for the losses that large tax-exempt institutions create. That way, the reward for charitable work is preserved without...
Given that the Kaprielian bill would have to overcome the lobbying strength of Harvard and other Massachusetts universities, the current system of unequal costs, unshared burdens and unceasing strife seems likely to continue. After all, there’s historical precedent—acquisitions of land by the Church continued almost unabated after 1279. Undying corporations do tend to stick around, especially ones that are already many centuries (or millennia) old. But it’s about time that the people of Massachusetts took the responsibility to preserve the local tax base out of Harvard’s dead hand...
...What they have done in the past is that they carve up the district of an exiting incumbent,” said Watertown Representative Rachel Kaprielian...
While the impetus for the legislation was Harvard’s purchase of the Arsenal property, Kaprielian said that this legislation might be enacted even if Harvard and Watertown came to a settlement on the University’s future payment to the city...
...horse is out of the barn,” Kaprielian said. “It is not an automatic right of a non-profit that an 1830 statute would not be tinkered with. I would solidly count [the 1830 exemption law] as an archaic statute...