The New Jersey Business & Industry Association today urged the Senate to vote to prevent property taxpayers from challenging the property tax assessments of nonprofit organizations in their county.
Under the bill, S-2212 (Singer, R-30), individual taxpayers would only be allowed to appeal the tax assessments on their own properties. Any challenges about the tax-exempt status of individual nonprofit organizations could only come from the local government.
“Many organizations like hospitals, educational institutions and charities could be severely damaged by third-party tax appeals because they operate on such thin margins,” said Mary Beaumont, NJBIA vice president for Health and Legal Affairs. “Should they lose a tax appeal case, they may not be able to stay open, and entire communities would be deprived of the services they depend on.
“Local governments are there to represent the interests of all taxpayers and are the ones that should be designated to take up such cases,” Beaumont said.
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Why would we support losing a right to appeal a property tax? The reasons stated in the article are vague and does not support a position of open and fair government. So when one of these new “warehouse” churches springs up in a commercial property, the town looses that revenue and I have to eat it without right of appeal. No thanks.
Local governments work for the taxpayer supposedly, as such why are there so many tax exempt organizations that have more money than we the taxpayers? I am bombarded by requests for donations and yet most of these organizations are tax exempt and some I question that validity. As a taxpayer if I want to question a charitites validity I should have that right, your supporting this bill indicates to me that you believe politicians will do the right thing, when popular indicatons are that they don’t