Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-11-2008
ISSN
0885-2545
Publisher
Springer
Language
en-US
Abstract
This paper was presented at the symposium dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the publication of Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy (Feld et al. 1983), held by the Association for Cultural Economics International, Boston, June 2008. Patrons Despite Themselves raised and tried to answer a number of important questions of policy concerning indirect government support for the arts. These questions have continued salience for what we see in our museums and hear in our concert halls. The primary source of federal indirect aid in the U.S. continues to derive from the deduction in the federal income tax for contributions to not-for-profit cultural institutions. On the other hand, there has been a series of recent challenges to the tax-exempt status of charitable institutions.
Recommended Citation
Alan L. Feld,
Revisiting tax subsidies for cultural institutions
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32
Journal of Cultural Economics
275
(2008).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-008-9082-y
