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...would any businesses want to set up shop in Hem? First off, it was one of 100 French municipalities accorded a tax-free status under its urban renewal project. It's part of a $45 billion national program to finance the renaissance of France's most blighted suburbs - one to which 380 towns that are home to 2.4 million people have thus far signed up. Those with tax-exempt status like Hem can lure businesses with an array of financial incentives, including state underwriting of most employer-paid social charges on salaries paid to local hires...
...rests not just on tallying up its Nobel Prize count, but also in the fair treatment of its workers and in its social and environmental responsibility to the community. The next president should continue initiatives such as payment in lieu of taxes program (PILOT) of 2005, in which Harvard significantly increased its payments to Cambridge for the tax-exempt land it owns. Harvard’s neighborhood respectability is as important as its global prestige and its wealth and reputation oblige it to set just and moral standards...
...tax is also unfair because it was sprung on student groups without advance notice. Unlike some subunits of FAS, many student groups can become independent, tax-exempt non-profit organizations, and might have already taken the opportunity to do so if they knew that their donations would be taxed. Before applying a tax, the University should have notified student groups so they could consider how to respond...
Earlier this month, the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted unanimously for the repeal of the tax. The UC has argued that the tax unfairly discriminates against newer student groups who haven’t had the time or financial ability to establish endowments and receive their own tax-exempt status...
...through a re-inspection process. Among many other safety measures, HUDS employees working in the kitchen have ready access to two different kinds of heavy-duty vinyl gloves (cotton lined and unlined) that are designed to protect them when working with high temperature machines. The Need for BalanceAs a tax-exempt, non-profit institution, Harvard has a responsibility to manage its financial resources prudently. Our tuition-paying students and their families, our donors and research sponsors, and our host communities expect the University to act responsibly with regard to its finances and commitments.From year to year, the University must balance...