Maryland officials are investigating why cell phone companies are not paying taxes for towers on Montgomery County school property -- and why these towers were not reported to the state Department of Assessments and Taxation...
...The Montgomery County Public School system has contracts with T-Mobile and AT&T, among others. A spokesman for the schools said officials were not aware of any requirement to report the towers to the state tax office.
A cell phone tower associated with an educational, religious or nonprofit use may be exempt from taxes but still "must be discovered, listed and assessed," according to the Maryland Assessment Procedures Manual. However, even if the tower is on school property, if it's being used commercially, the tower "should be made taxable, and notices should be sent to the owner of the real estate."
"You'd have to go a long way to convince me this is not a commercial use," said Roy Sleeman, supervisor of assessments...
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/state-investigating-cell-phone-towers-at-montgomery-schools/article/109047
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