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Harvard paid the final installment on its $969,170 in-lieu-of-tax payment on June 13, in accordance with the terns of a 20-year old agreement that expired last year. Harvard and Cambridge are currently negotiating a new agreement for the voluntary payments, which compensate the city for Harvard's tax-free academic facilities...
This year's payment represents a 5.77 percent increase over Harvard's fiscal year 1988 contribution...
...University officials claim that Harvard is paying its fair share of the tax burden. Director of Planning Kathy Spiegelman said that Harvard decided to make the payment as a show of good faith to city, despite the agreement's expiration...
...financial stress worsened dramatically in April last year when city assets were temporarily frozen after East St. Louis failed to begin payment on a $3.4 million judgment arising from the beating of one local jail inmate by another in 1984. The city is now beset with dozens of lawsuits. Firemen have sued successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally...
Harvard, the mayor explains, often gets a free ride from the city. Most of the University's vast land holdings in Cambridge are exempt from municipal taxes. Even with its large voluntary payment in lieu of taxes, Harvard pays the city less than a private landowner would...