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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We don’t mean right this second, like hanging out by the fountain. But when you think about deadbeats who don’t pay property taxes, you probably […]