Pa. State Senator Wants Large Nonprofits to Pay Real Estate Taxes

State Senator Wayne Fontana (D-Pittsburgh) said that legislative action needs to be taken to rein in nonprofit organizations that, he said, are clearly driven by profit.

Fontana introduced a bill that would require some larger nonprofits to pay real estate taxes on the assessed value of land owned by their organizations. A similar bill was introduced a couple of years ago, but didn’t go anywhere because of fears about how it would affect smaller nonprofits.