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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Some Winnipesaukee waterfront summer camps pay regular property taxes, and some do not? Camp Winnaukee in Moultonborough is reported to pay full property taxes.
Camp Monotomy, a no longer operating girl scout camp owned by the Girl Scouts of Massachusetts is reported to pay no property tax and it has been closed for about eight years. It gets very light use for about two weeks per year with its' Whispering Pines program. If those pines could talk, you know what they would say.....they would be whispering.....pssstttt.....hey lookie here.....what a great deal.....all this land, waterfront and hundred year old trees......zero taxes.....and just one black bear for a year round resident......SUCH-A-DEAL....whisper.....whisper......whisper!
The Appalachian Mountain Club's Three Mile Island Camp is reported to pay $20,000/year as a payment in lieu of taxes to the Town of Meredith which is just peanuts compared to what Three Mile Island would be paying as a whole were it to be subdivided into one acre waterfront lots.
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I don't believe Camp Winaukee has nonprofit status and at $10K per camper their revenue is roughly $3.7MM from tuition. I highly doubt they're paying their full tax burden out of the goodness of their hearts.
Up the street is nonprofit Camp Techumseh which is a "bargain" at $6,800 (camper revenue of about $1.1MM). They do not pay property taxes but I believe they do pay some amount in lieu of taxes.
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5 = employees
$409,119 = Salaries, other compensation, employee benefits (Part IX, column
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$81,824 = Avg per employee
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If a camp/private school/organization can obey the laws and restrictions of nonprofit status, I don't really see anything a town can do about collecting taxes. One of those restrictions is the payment of "reasonable" salaries. You couldn't pay the person operating the Castle $500K because that is not reasonable given their responsibilities but $100K wouldn't be out of the question.