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Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. on the Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

How to get rid of property taxes? Lawmaker looks to retirement income.

One state House lawmaker is trying to pitch a new solution to a very old Pennsylvania problem: the reliance on school property taxes.

6 years ago

A part of Newark's skyline is seen in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Money

N.J. approves $9M in tax credits to ‘Joker,’ ‘West Side Story’

New Jersey on Tuesday approved roughly $9 million in film tax credits to a Spielberg adaptation of "West Side Story" and a Batman movie called "Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix

6 years ago

Cooper University Hospital board chairman George Norcross III listens in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, May 15, 2012, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cooper Cancer Institute. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Judge sides with N.J. Gov. Murphy, dismisses Norcross’ tax credit suit

A New Jersey judge sided with Gov. Phil Murphy and dismissed the lawsuit brought by a political powerbroker challenging a task force investigating business tax credits.

6 years ago

Developments on the Camden waterfront, like the American Water corporate headquarters and the 18-story Camden Tower, receive substantial local tax breaks in addition to state tax incentives. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Money

Camden rising? As deficit grows, new businesses won’t pay full property taxes for 20 years

Camden’s budget deficit could get worse despite a corporate-office building boom. Many companies won’t pay full property taxes for 20 years.

6 years ago

Listen 4:25
Center City Philadelphia. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Philly vows to fight commercial property owners over $48 million reassessment ruling

Philadelphia is pushing back against a court ruling that would require the city and the School District to pay $48 million to commercial property owners.

6 years ago

New Jersey attorney general Gurbir Grewal speaks during a news conference
Courts & Law
NJ Spotlight

New Jersey files suit over IRS decision blocking SALT workarounds

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the lawsuit challenges the Trump administration's cap as "unlawful" and a "violation of our federal tax code."

6 years ago

A small fleet of goPuff delivery vehicles, parked outside their Philadelphia headquarters. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Money

Delivery company goPuff left out key details before winning $39 million N.J. tax break

The home delivery service goPuff failed to disclose a federal labor law violation to New Jersey officials when it applied for a $39 million corporate tax break last summer.

6 years ago

Paintings by Northeast High School students in the 'Immigrant Alphabet' art project hanging on MSB in 2017 (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Money
Billy Penn

Philly immigrant earnings — and taxes paid — are up 13%, per new report

The region has one of the most stable foreign-born populations in the country.

6 years ago

The city of Camden in New Jersey. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Economic ‘opportunity’ or ‘poor stewardship’? N.J. tax break debate continues at hearing

Boosters and critics of New Jersey’s controversial tax incentive program came out to speak Tuesday during a public hearing in Trenton.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Public gets turn to talk N.J. tax credits at next hearing

The public will get its chance to weigh in on New Jersey's business tax incentive drama that led to the program's expiration earlier this month.

6 years ago

New Jersey has let expire two tax incentive programs that have helped attract companies to Camden and several other struggling towns. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Murphy lets ‘flawed’ N.J. tax break programs expire, vows to veto extension bill

New Jersey has let expire two tax incentive programs that have helped attract companies to Camden and several other struggling towns.

6 years ago

Kris Singh, center, the founder, president and CEO of Holtec International. The company was granted the second-largest tax break in state history, but officials placed a hold on the break following our reporting. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Money
ProPublica

A huge tax break went to a politically connected company in New Jersey despite red flags

Holtec told N.J. regulators that Ohio was competing for its new headquarters. Officials there stripped the firm of past tax awards for failing to create the jobs it promised.

6 years ago

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Gov. Murphy digs in over millionaires’ tax, making gov’t shutdown more likely

New Jersey Dems can’t agree on whether to tax the rich. At stake is a possible government shutdown on July 1.

6 years ago

Cooper University Hospital board chairman George Norcross III listens in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, May 15, 2012, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cooper Cancer Institute. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

N.J. judge rules against Norcross, allows tax incentive report released

South Jersey power broker George Norcross failed to stop a task force from releasing its report that puts him and his allies in an unfavorable light.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. lawmakers leave Murphy’s millionaire’s tax out of proposed budget

Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey introduced a state budget proposal Monday that doesn’t include a millionaire’s tax proposed by Gov. Murphy.

6 years ago

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