Boston Hospitals Challenged to Pay Bigger Share of Property Tax

According to a new report called “The Non-Profit City,” Boston’s major hospitals, which own $2.4-billion in tax-exempt property, pay only a fraction of the cost necessary to provide them with police, fire, and other services, reports The Boston Globe.

“They’re not paying their fair share,” said Mary Jo Connelly, director of research for Community Labor United, a coalition of union and activist groups that released the report. “In a time that everyone is sacrificing, it’s time for them to step up and start addressing these shortfalls.”

But hospital officials countered that the report does not take into account the many local benefits that the institutions provide and that would otherwise fall to the city to pay for.

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