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Some colleges have billion-dollar endowments — and now the GOP wants to tax them for it

In the GOP tax plan, private universities with assets of more than $100,000 a student will pay a 1.4% excise tax on their net investment income.
  • House GOP leaders released
  • Colleges and universities will pay a 1.4% excise tax on their endowment investment income if the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" is passed.
  • It's a big change from the current system, where college endowments are not taxed.

Under the proposed sweeping legislation, p

That's a big change from the current system, where colleges aren't taxed on their endowment earnings because they're nonprofit institutions.

For fiscal year 2017, college endowments with more than $500 million had a median investment gain of 13.3%. For endowments of all sizes, that gain was 11.3%

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