Comments on: Fore! http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2008/07/30/fore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fore Mindfulness in the face of challenge. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dave http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2008/07/30/fore/#comment-581 dave Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:40:19 +0000 http://johnknoxwhite.com/?p=395#comment-581 The next biggest charge is the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT). This is a 1% charge for public entities that don’t pay property taxes. If the course was a private golf course, the city would be collecting property taxes on it. This charge emulates it. It exists in order to support the ancilliary services that the general fund supports and which benefit the golf complex (and rest of the island). Service such as police, fire, roads, traffic signals, etc. ====== I found this excerpt interesting, coming from a Suncal booster. The next biggest charge is the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT). This is a 1% charge for public entities that don’t pay property taxes. If the course was a private golf course, the city would be collecting property taxes on it. This charge emulates it. It exists in order to support the ancilliary services that the general fund supports and which benefit the golf complex (and rest of the island). Service such as police, fire, roads, traffic signals, etc.

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I found this excerpt interesting, coming from a Suncal booster.

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