Taxes

Ryan Briggs, of City & State PA, joins NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller to discuss the possibility of lowering or eliminating property taxes across the commonwealth.

Pennsylvania voters agreed to a ballot measure that will amend the constitution to let municipalities stop charging property taxes.

The program aims to ignite investment in historically hard-to-develop neighborhoods by allowing developers to use tax revenue to pay off things like construction debt.

Smaller business owners would also get a lower rate on some of their income, but there are limits to who would benefit.

Republicans have criticized the nation’s wealthiest universities for accruing billions of dollars while avoiding most taxes due to their nonprofit status.

President Donald Trump is pressuring Republicans to repeal a health care law penalty in their tax rewrite.

Guests: Ryan Briggs, Callum Borchers,  Theodoric Meyer        We begin today’s show discussing the ball ...

Getting rid of the state and local tax deduction known as SALT would be "a tax increase on the middle class, pure and simple," said Gov. Tom Wolf.

A new analysis finds those assigned public defenders in Pennsylvania are more likely to receive the death penalty.  A tax reform amendme ...

A constitutional change before Pennsylvania voters could lower property taxes and shake up school funding. Or it could do nothing at all.

But can they deliver? What are the next steps for Congress? How would the changes affect the average taxpayer? Some questions and answers:

The Philadelphia region’s Congressional delegation reacts to the Senate’s tax reform vote. Temple University law professor D ...

The effort to overhaul the nation's tax code is testing the GOP's ability to govern, and right now the region's lawmakers are highlighting the difficulty facing party leaders.

Natural gas severance tax proponents say going through new committee could be breakthrough in Pennsylvania legislature.

City Controller Alan Butkovitz says the city's soda tax is hammering small businesses, and he says he has new numbers that prove it.