Kenneth Service / Think before you tax: A city payroll tax on nonprofits would hit higher education - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Kenneth Service / Think before you tax: A city payroll tax on nonprofits would hit higher education - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: While the question of addressing Pittsburgh's revenue needs is certainly a valid subject for investigation, early comments regarding both approaches seem to indicate a predetermined outlook that ignores the reason why nonprofit organizations are exempt, by law, from the payment of some taxes; namely that they provide benefits to the public that municipal governments are not equipped to provide or could not afford to provide.