Taxes
Pew: AVI Shifts Tax Burden to Homeowners
A new study from Pew Charitable Trusts shows that—surprise!—the city’s tax burden will shift away from businesses and to residential property owners under the new […]
Butkovitz: AVI Assessments Worse Than Old, Bad Property Tax Assessments
CBS Philly reports that City Controller Alan Butkovitz has declared the city’s new AVI property tax assessments —designed to more fairly tax owners on their […]
Which Philly Neighborhoods Aren’t Paying Their Taxes?
Newsworks has crunched numbers on which council districts have the highest rates of tax delinquency. (The whole city, as Patrick Kerkstra has found, is basically […]
Local Republican Jim Gerlach Creates Bill to Tax Flu Shots
Do you have the flu? Are you sneezing, congested, miserable? Good. Sixth District Congressman Jim Gerlach sees money in that. He wants to tax your […]
City To Reveal its AVI Dark Magic to the Public
It’s become Philadelphia’s favorite political parlor game: bashing AVI. So, in an attempt to quell the criticism over its mysterious property assessment methods, the city […]
City Council Threatens to Subpoena Mayor Over AVI
Certain City Council members, frustrated at the at-times erroneous nature of the city’s new AVI property assessments, are asking the city to reveal their exact […]
After Website Snafu, City Extends Online Tax Filing Deadline
Good news! Remember how on Sunday, the day before taxes were due, City Hall took down the website that let people pay their city taxes […]
This Is Probably The Most Hilarious Tax Day Protest In Philadelphia
Kae Lani Kennedy, a Philadelphia freelancer who writes the A Travel Broad blog, explains the image she made to, um, celebrate Tax Day: I seriously […]
Does Philadelphia Need Gentrification Relief?
We all know that Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods, and that the constant push-and-pull between forces that would preserve those neighborhoods and their identities […]
Of Course the State’s Website Crashes On Tax Day [Updated]
Pennsylvania has been lauded by the Tax Foundation (they study taxes) as having one of the very most transparent state websites in the country, when […]
On Tax Day Eve, Philly’s Revenue Department Goes AWOL
In the quiet early hours on Sunday morning, my wife sat down at our family computer to do our civic duty and electronically file our […]
Now the City Wants to Tax You Even More to Drink Alcohol
Mayor Michael Nutter and City Council President Darrell Clarke are leaning toward raising the tax you pay when you drink in bars and restaurants. Their […]
City Considers 50% Raise on Liquor Tax They Don’t Collect
According to today’s Philadelphia Daily News, Mayor Nutter and City Council are considering increasing the “liquor by the drink” tax by 50% to help fund Philadelphia […]
One Upside to the Phillies’ Monstrous, Bloated Payroll: Wage Taxes!
The Phillies, as I wrote last week, are among the most inefficient spenders in the league. Last year especially, they spent a lot and didn’t […]
Vince Fumo Faces A Big Tax Hike On His Big Mansion
The Inquirer’s Miriam Hill reports that Vince Fumo—once the city’s most powerful politician, now serving five years in federal prison on corruption charges—is yet another […]