The head of Harvard University responded to a new warning from President Donald Trump to remove the Ivy League college’s tax-exempt status amid a protracted battle between Ivy League colleges and the administration.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on May 2, Harvard President Alan Garber said he believes it would be “highly illegal” for the administration to remove the tax exempt status and that it would prove “destructive” for the university.
There would have to be “some reasoning that we have not been exposed to that would justify this dramatic move,” he told the outlet, adding that “tax-exempt status is granted to educational institutions to enable them to successfully carry out their mission of education, and for research universities, of research.”…