National Wildlife Refuge Trivia:  What is PILT?  

5 days ago - By 10,000 Birds

National Wildlife Refuges protect critical habitat and provide some of the best birding locations in the United States. Although birders and other users of NWRs create local jobs , federal lands can be costly for local governments because, broadly speaking, federal land cannot be taxed by state or local governments. This federal tax immunity can deprive such governments of property tax revenues that would have been collected had the land been owned by any other entity.
To mitigate the impact of a reduced tax base, the federal government makes payments in lieu of taxes to affected local...
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