(e) “Real Estate Taxes” means any form of assessment, license fee, license tax, business license fee, levy, charge, improvement bond, tax, water and sewer rents and charges, utilities and communications taxes and charges or similar or dissimilar imposition imposed by any authority having the direct power to tax, including any city, county, state or federal government, or any school, agricultural, lighting, drainage or other improvement or special assessment district thereof, or any other governmental charge, general and special, ordinary and extraordinary, foreseen and unforeseen, which may be assessed against any legal or equitable interest of Landlord in the Premises, Building or the Land. Real Estate Taxes shall also include, without limitation:
(i) any hereafter adopted assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge in substitution, partially or totally, of any assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge previously included within the ad valorem real property taxes. It is the intention of Tenant and Landlord that all such new and increased assessments, taxes, fees, levies and charges be included within the definition of “Real Estate Taxes” for the purposes of this Lease;
(ii) any assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge allocable to or measured by the area of the Premises or other premises in the Building or the rent payable by Tenant hereunder or other tenants of the Building, including, without limitation, any gross receipts tax or excise tax levied by state, city or federal government, or any political subdivision thereof, with respect to the receipt of such rent, or upon or with respect to the possession, leasing, operation, management, maintenance, alteration, repair, use or occupancy by Tenant of the Premises, or any portion thereof but not on Landlord’s other operations;
(iii) any assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge upon this transaction or any document to which Tenant is a party, creating or transferring an interest or an estate in the Premises, and any business improvement district assessments or charges, or PILOT (i.e., payments in lieu of taxes payments);
(iv) any assessment, tax, fee, levy or charge by any governmental agency related to any transportation plan, fund or system (including assessment districts) instituted within the geographic area of which the Land is a part; and/or
(v) any costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred in attempting to protest, reduce or minimize Real Estate Taxes.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Real Estate Taxes shall not include: (x) municipal, state and federal income taxes (if any) assessed against Landlord; (y) municipal, state or federal capital levy, gift, estate, succession, inheritance or transfer taxes of Landlord; or (z) corporation excess profits or franchise taxes imposed upon any corporate owner of the Land or Building.
(f) For any calendar year during which actual occupancy of the Building is less than ninety five percent (95%) of the Rentable Area of the Building (including, without limitation, the Tenant’s Base Year for Operating Expenses), those Operating Expenses for services which vary based on the level of occupancy of the Building (such as cleaning services) shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect ninety five percent (95%) occupancy of the existing Rentable Area of the Building during such period. In determining Operating Expenses, if any services or utilities are separately charged to tenants of the Building or others, Operating Expenses shall be adjusted by
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