Trump once again threatens Harvard's tax exemption status: NPR

On Friday, President Trump once again threatened to revoke Harvard University's tax -fighting status.

“We will take Harvard's tax exemption status away. It is what you earn!” Trump card wrote in a social contribution of truth.

His comments marked the youngest volleye in a fight between the Trump administration and the richest college in the world.

Trump proposed that the school's non -profit tax status in April when he wrote Truth social: “Perhaps Harvard should lose his tax exemption status and be taxed as a political company if there is always political, ideological and terrorist inspiration/support of” illness? “” “

The administration claims that the university did not protect Jewish students on campus and sent Harvard a list of requirements It said that he had to be fulfilled, or the university would risk losing around 9 billion US dollars of federal financing. Harvard's president rejected the administration's claimsThey said they were illegal and an unbearable attempt to dictate “what private universities can teach, who can admit and hire and which study and examination areas they can pursue”. In response to this, the government frozen more than 2.2 billion US dollars in federal financing.

Almost all universities and universities are tax -friendly organizations. Together with charity organizations, religious institutions and some political organizations, they receive a non -profit status.

This is part of the reason why an elite, the US institutions, could collect large foundations. Harvard has that Largest, with more than 50 billion US dollars.

The Republicans have long tried to contain the tax exemptions in university formation. 2017 Congress A taxes of 1.4% passed at the beginning of the universitywhich affected many of the nation's elite institutions. The president does not have the authority to revoke the tax status of an organization, but he can ask the Internal Revenue Service to do so.

Harvard has sued the Trump administrationviolate the assertion of the government's actions The first change And do not follow the right procedure. The accelerated process will begin this summer.