Tuesday, November 24, 2009

PILOT Redux

Today's PG report on State Sen. Wayne Fontana and his effort once again to generate government revenue based on local land holdings by large Pittsburgh non-profits reminded me of this Pittsblog post (and the associated PG story) about PILOT programs elsewhere. That's "Payment in Lieu of Taxes," and if non-profit land holdings can't be taxed directly, then PILOT programs are good alternatives - and better, generally speaking, than tuition taxes - to pick a non-random example. (PILOT programs aren't problem-free, of course.) Both the current story and the earlier PILOT story were reported by Rich Lord. I suspect that he isn't the only one who noticed the passage of almost three years since the first story was published.

1 comment:

Laura V said...

Pittsburgh has a much larger bellydance scene than any comparably-sized city I can think of, and larger than quite a few bigger cities. That could qualify as a pocket of weird, I suppose, particularly when you add in some of our great performance artists (like Phat Man Dee).