“If the Government implements our plan of depriving our tax exemption, it is completely illegal, unless there are a number of reasons we have never known to justify this shocking move,” Harvard University President Alan Garber said in an interview with a interview with it with a interview with it with a interview with a interview with a interview with it with a interview with it.WSJposted on 2/5.

The comment was given by Garber after US President Donald Trump was the same day on Truth Social, saying, “We will deprive Harvard University’s tax exemption. That’s what they deserve.”

Harvard University, like most public and private universities in the United States, enjoy tax exemptions as a non -profit organization and thanks to their contributions to society, similar to churches and charities.

Thanks to tax exemption, Harvard University does not have to pay housing tax or from investments. The school can issue duty -free bonds, which are very attractive to investors. The donor can deduct the funding for Harvard’s funding, making them more willing to spend money on this facility.

Harvard has a series of facilities in the Greater Boston region, Massachusetts. An analysis ofBloombergIt is estimated that Harvard in 2023 benefited US $ 158 million on real estate tax. In total, this school benefited at least 465 million USD in the same year thanks to the tax -free policy. This losing this right can cause Harvard to spend extra costs up to billions of dollars, when Mr. Trump has just started for a 4 -year term.

“The message that the threat to deprivation of this tax exemption to the educational community will be very terrible. It shows that political disagreements can be used as a basis for causing a vital threat with many educational institutions,” Garber said.

A government official said that the President’s post was not an official directive for the US Department of Taxation to implement. A Harvard spokesman also said that the school has not received a notice from the Department of Taxation that the tax exemption regulation is being reviewed.

“The tax exemption regulations are provided to educational organizations so that they can successfully implement the educational mission and for research universities, which is the research mission. It is clear that it will be seriously affected if we lose tax exemption regulations,” Garber said.

The tension between Harvard University and the Trump administration escalated from the end of March, when the US Department of Education warned that it would reassess the $ 8.7 billion funding for the school. The anti -Jewish anti -thought group (JTFCAS) of the US Department of Education has issued a series of requirements with Harvard University, including changing the curriculum and how to enroll, in order to “eliminate the Jewish idea”.

Harvard University announced his willingness to cooperate with the government, but said that such requirements were excessive intervention from the government. The Trump administration then announced the freezing $ 2.2 billion to finance Harvard University.

Harvard last month filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, opening a legal confrontation between the leading American famous university and the White House. The lawsuit lawsuit that the Government has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding and endanger the school’s academic independence.