NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required.

Associations

MNA Association

MARCH 22, 2023

in Senate Taxation. HB870 – Revise Tax Rate for Nonprofit Agricultural Property This bill proposes to revise the tax rate for agricultural property owned by certain nonprofits to 10 times the rate under normal valuation. The bill was heard in House Taxation and we await their decision. The hearing date is not set.

Taxation

MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

.” Often, it’s a specialty issue that triggers the challenge: hospitals not paying property taxes yet having such a large real estate footprint, or nonprofits owning agricultural land and getting a “discounted” ag rate on their taxes yet not being ag producers. MNA fights to protect tax exemption, and rightfully so.

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. Two things changed how wealth was managed. New policies were passed that mandate that corporations and private foundations pay land taxes to local Tribes.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? billion paid to more than 123,000 Indigenous people.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Peoples’ Assemblies and Planning Councils Purpose: Determine, through the exercise of direct democracy, the governance of our productive networks and all of the affairs of society, particularly those pertaining to production and reproduction that have been removed from our collective control by capitalism.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.

Public and Social Policy