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[quote=Anonymous]The most fair thing would be to force the federal government to pay municipal taxes on vacant or severely underutilized office buildings. An enormous amount of DC's commercial real estate foot print is owned by the feds and is tax free. It's very limiting. If those buildings are full of federal workers whose presence leads to lots of businesses popping up to serve them, it kind of evens out. If those buildings are entirely or mostly empty, it doesn't.

If the feds had to pay vacant property taxes on empty or mostly empty buildings, they would either force people back into offices or sell the buildings.

From an economic standpoint, you don't even have to take a side here on anything -- not telework, or whether Bowser is entitled to ask for anything. The buildings are underutilized. Maximize their utility. You can do that by making them a source of tax revenue, selling them to organizations who will fill them with people, or sending federal workers back to the office. The one option that makes no economic sense is keeping the buildings as they are, tax free, but not using them. It's a waste of both city and federal resources.[/quote]

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