Star Tribune Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:25:20 GMT
Nonprofit groups flustered over court ruling
A daycare center lost its property tax exemptions when the state Supreme Court decided it wasn't "purely public." ... The state Revenue Department has no plan to change how it interprets tax exemptions for nonprofits, said Revenue Commissioner Ward Einess. But on the county level, he said, assessors use their own discretion in applying the North Star Test. Frank Schweigert, assistant professor of public and nonprofit administration at Metropolitan State University who sits on several nonprofit boards, said today's nonprofits operate more from fees than strictly donations. That may explain why counties, which could gain financially, would want them taxed more like businesses.
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