Wal-Mart Favored Over Hospitals in Nonprofit Pinch: Taxes

Pittsburgh’s biggest nonprofit hospitals and universities, whose jobs helped revive the Steel City economy, may have to shoulder some of its tax burden too.

A levy based on payroll size would be paid by those with 250 employees or more under a bill being written by state Senator Jim Ferlo, a Pittsburgh Democrat. It would also reduce a similar tax on businesses in Pennsylvania’s second-largest city.