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8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1968
St. Jose Ph’s
Grads Honored
261-3040 Free Inspection
Two St. Joseph High School
graduates are serving as presidents
of theiT college classes. Rosemary
Tracy, a 1968 graduate, has been
elected as president of- the
Freshman class at Maryville
College in St. Louis, Missouri.
The president of the Morehouse
College Freshman class is William
McFarlin, also a 1968 graduate.
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Capitol Studies Risky
Plan.,,Taxing Churches
WASHINGTO.N-The District
of Columbia government is
considering a tax raising
excursion into the fields of
religious, charitable, educational
and other tax-exempt
institutions.
If past experiences are criteria,
the excursion, if carried out, may
prove extremely hazardous.
The nation’s capital needs $43
million in revenue to balance the
1970 fiscal year budget. In recent
years, the usual sources-real
estate, sales, - gasoline, liquor,
personal property, income-have
been tapped repeatedly for
additional taxes.
Now Deputy Mayor Thomas
W. Fletcher and the City
Council’s finance committee have
been looking around for new
revenue sources. City Council
Chairman John W. Hechinger has
disclosed it just about has been
decided to tax real estate of
religious and other exempt
institutions, it has been estimated
this would yield nearly $ 18
million in new tax funds.
It might be wise for the city
tax gatherers to bone up oh such
adages as “the past is prologue”
and “look before you leap.”
The last major venture by the
city into the hazardous field of
levying against religious and other
tax-exempt sources occured some
20 years ago. The result was
disastrous-for the city.
A DC budget officer came up
with the plan, which he “sold” to
the DC Commissioners, then the
city fathers, over the objections
of his boss, the then Corporation
Counsel and now U.S. District
Court Judge Richmond B. Keech.
The plan called for taxing
income on parking lots, where
charges are made, of churches,
schools and other such
establishments; levying against
cafeterias and snack bars at such
institutions as the Methodist
Building, on Capitol Hill, where
the food was excellent, and the
Franciscan Monastery, a favorite
among the sight-seeing spots. The
plan, devised to yield several tidy
millions, was put into effect. The
institutions paid the taxes on
advice of counsel, but under
protest.
The city fathers and the
budget officer failed to reckon
with the fact that- Congress still is
the lawmaking body for the
capital. The upshot was a study
of the new tax plan by the Senate
and House District of Columbia
Committees. The result was
enactment of a more rigid
tax-emempt law for religious,
educational, charitable and other
tax exempt institutions in the
city.
And, to top it off, the city
had to return all the monies it
had acquired under the ill-advised
plan.
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