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Rail ridership up statewide, Harrisburg up 245 percent
Rail ridership in Pennsylvania is up, according a new study from the Brookings Institution. Philadelphia-area Amtrak ridership gre ...
12 years ago
Philly councilman proposes four-year phase-in of AVI
Reassessing property taxes in Philadelphia is stirring so much concern that one member of City Council is looking to ease into the change ...
12 years ago
Business tax break proposed to offset Philadelphia property tax hikes
Amid recalculating property taxes citywide in Philadelphia, one councilwoman is seeking to help out some small businesses. Council ...
12 years ago
Philadelphia approving homestead exemptions without the home
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is offering a tax break to homeowners to soften the blow of the city’s reassessment of about 579, ...
12 years ago
Is there any property tax relief for renters?
Taxipedia is answering people’s questions about Philadelphia’s property tax reassessment. Today’s question come ...
12 years ago
Green wants tax-exempt nonprofits to pass yearly test
WHYY/NewsWorks and the Daily News recently found that some Philadelphia nonprofits were getting tax breaks that they may not have deserve ...
12 years ago
Can property taxes go up more than 10 percent per year under AVI?
Absolutely, and many will. Owners of properties that have been under-assessed could get dramatically higher tax bills, and at the ...
12 years ago
Are Philly renters at risk from AVI hikes?
The city of Philadelphia is in the thick of its Actual Value Initiative — an effort to revamp the property tax system. The AVI t ...
12 years ago
White House warns of cuts to major programs ahead
In a prepared release the White House has announced the impacts that pending spending cuts would make on middle-class America. This state ...
12 years ago
Wasn’t the BRT abolished? What does it have to do with new assessments?
Some readers want to know: “What does the Board of Revision of Taxes have to do with Philadelphia’s new property assessments? ...
12 years ago
Why are some Philly property assessments different from sales prices? [Updated]
Just a couple of months ago, a building at the corner of Philadelphia’s Seventh and Bainbridge streets sold for $950,000. The city asse ...
12 years ago
Should Philly use gaming money to lower property taxes?
Should Philadelphia’s gaming revenue be used to lower property taxes? Since Mayor Michael Nutter is ...
12 years ago
Bowles speaks in Philly as Washington stares at sequester — what would you ask him?
It is a fitting time for Erskine Bowles to be in Philadelphia. He and his fellow co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Respo ...
12 years ago
Nutter says old property tax system is ‘dead’
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says the city’s defective property tax system is no more. After working to get its house in or ...
12 years ago
New Philly tax valuations leave some furious, others grateful
Will Massey is furious about Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s Actual Value Initiative. ...
12 years ago