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In-Depth Information
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 “Governor’s
Tax Cap Threatens 125-Year-Old Covenant to Pay Local Taxes”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America,
Inc., February 12, 2009
When the New York State Legislature established the Adirondack
Forest Preserve, the Legislature followed the recommendations
of the official commission, which concluded that because the
protection of the forest “would be chiefly for the
benefit of the rest of the State,” the State should
“hereafter bear taxes upon its lands in the Adirondack
region.” It may take 125 years, but with control
of much of the land, preservationists control the tax base and
future.
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- “Governor’s
Proposed State Tax Cap Would Be A Tax Outrage” - By
Carol W. LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.
Reduced size version (pdf) of advertisement that appeared in
the Adirondack Journal, January 31, 2009
A cap on the State payment of property taxes to localities
within the 6,000,000-acre Adirondack region would gradually cause
a damaging and destructive shift of the tax burden to the already
restricted and weak local economies. Fair play demands that the
Legislature’s long-established doctrine to pay local
taxes be upheld.
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- “Flying High without
PILOTs: Town of Brookline’s Use of a Ground Lease to Thwart
Property Tax Exemption for a Charitable Non-profit”
- By Arshag A. Mazmanian, Esq. , October 1, 2007
The Town of Brookline, Massachusetts, granted a re-zoning
to accommodate a non-conforming structure proposed by a non-profit,
while the Town concurrently acquired the property for ground-leaseback
to a developer so that this entity could collect then rent on
the sublet ground lease to the non-profit. The portion of the
rent equivalent to the real estate taxes that would have been
paid if the land were both owned and occupied by a non-charitable
entity is paid by the developer to the Town. The Town thereby
evades the situation of receiving minimal revenue through PILOTs
(payment in lieu of taxes), at most, by a tax-exempt property
owner.
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- “Tax
Base Eroded by Shifting Court Sentiment”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Originally printed in the August 17,
1992 Capital District Business Review, Albany, N.Y.)
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Lucas case is
a bellwether indicator of the direction that land use regulations
and environmental controls affecting property are taking. That
direction will be to dig deep into the public pocketbook to pay
for the cost of the controls to individual owners.
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- “Allodial
Title—An E-mail Exchange” - by Carol W. LaGrasse
(PRFA, November 18, 2003)
A straightforward response to an urgent inquiry from a web
site visitor imagining that he can protect his property by filing
an allodial deed. People are told that they can avoid building
restrictions and real estate taxes.
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