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Legislation to expand Property Tax/Rent Rebate limits passes House

(Jun 05, 2023) Finance

Income limits for the PT/RR Program last increased in January 2007. Without any increase in the income eligibility since then, the number of recipients of the PT/RR Program has dropped from roughly 600,000 individuals to a projected 398,000 in the current year. Read more

 

Finance Committee approves Property Tax/Rent Rebate expansion legislation

(May 23, 2023) Finance

Taking the first significant step toward increasing income limits for Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program for the first time in 16-plus years, the Finance Committee passed legislation Tuesday to do just that. Read more

 

Bill alert -- House Bill 13 is not "budget neutral"

(Mar 10, 2020) Finance

House Bill 13 would tax pensions, clothes and medication, as well as increase the sales and income taxes you pay in order to cut property taxes on homes and properties owned by corporations. Read more

 

One of Philadelphia’s richest law firms wants tax breaks, again. Why it might get its way.

(Mar 08, 2020) by Harold Brubaker, Inquirer

Dechert LLP, one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest law firms, where partners made $3 million each in profits last year, wants to move its headquarters into a virtually tax-free zone in the city. Read more

 

Medicaid block grant proposals spell trouble for patients and hospitals

(Feb 10, 2020) Finance

Medicaid is a longstanding partnership between states and the federal government to provide care to the poorest and sickest among us. A pair of proposals from Washington threaten to upset this joint commitment and fray the nation’s perilously thin safety net for vulnerable patients.Together, these proposals stand to trigger an erosion of the impressive gains we’ve made for patients across our country and region this past decade. Read more

 

Fracking has led to a ‘bust’ for Pennsylvania school district finances

(Feb 10, 2020) Finance

n the last decade, unconventional natural gas development has transformed American energy — as well as communities across Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region.Often popularly referred to as “fracking,” this highly industrialized process is used to extract energy resources from underground geologies such as shale or sandstone. Read more

 

Legislation to expand Property Tax/Rent Rebate limits passes House
Jun 05, 2023

Finance Committee approves Property Tax/Rent Rebate expansion legislation
May 23, 2023

Bill alert -- House Bill 13 is not "budget neutral"
Mar 10, 2020

One of Philadelphia’s richest law firms wants tax breaks, again. Why it might get its way.
Mar 08, 2020

Medicaid block grant proposals spell trouble for patients and hospitals
Feb 10, 2020

Fracking has led to a ‘bust’ for Pennsylvania school district finances
Feb 10, 2020