Incentive Taxation
Philadelphia
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jrv: Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:12 PM
No More either/Or: What's Philadelphia worth?
For years Philadelphia Pennsylvania has been an outlier among American cities (and internationally) for its menu of strange taxes on business and onerous levieson residents that have savage effects upon the local economy. For years, people who think about tax issues have proposed over and over again reducing reliance on these corrosive and self-destructive levies, that have driven jobs and capital out of the city squeezing the traditional middle class in particular. |
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 6:16 PM
2013 heralds something considered cataclysmic in
Philadelphia but is routine in the rest of the world: a new assessment for
property tax purposes. From Podunk to
Portland (Oregon or Maine), assessment officers and departments apply land and
building values to each property, the community figures out how much revenue it
needs and divides it by those values. Voilà, you get a property tax rate, and then
send out a bill.
A very little history
Nothing is ever quite that simple in the city that
UrbanTools loves. |
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Josh: Posted on Monday, January 07, 2013 5:33 PM
Story One - Take a Peep at This Our perceptive friends at Keystone Politics, have posted an observationabout the latest embarrassment on the Philadelphia land-use front. Long story short, for years a patch of Market Street has been infested (literally and figuratively) by some low-rise, low-rent, low class buildings housing one of the few porno "palaces" left in Philadelphia. The anchor of the Keystone post is an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by the redoubtable |
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jrv: Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:29 PM
What properties are most often exempt? Generally property owned by charitable organizations (Code section 501(c)(3)), Public charities, Private foundations, Social welfare organizations (section 501(c)(4)), Agricultural/horticultural organizations (section 501(c)(5)), Labororganizations (section 501(c)(5)) and Business leagues (trade associations |
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Joshua Vincent: Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:56 PM
Spreading Like Kudzu
Historic reality: in 1950, Cleveland Ohio had a population
of nearly
1,000,000. It had a tax base that
was compact and served all sectors of the city well. Great fortunes were made, along with the success
of the working and middle classes. From the 1900s to the 1950s, great civic
amenitiesbecame possible with this wealth.
John Rockefeller was only the largest source of foundations and gifts that
made Cleveland not only a gritty industrial hub, but a place where one could
become a more educated, cultured and involved citizen. |
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Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 6:57 PM
The Point Breeze Garbage Lot/Museum is still a live story that may end up biting someone. The City Controllerhas rebuked the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for treating a good citizen like dirt, as we reported a few days ago.
Now, the builder- Ori Feibush - has respondet as the PRA has wished (putting the trash back and removing the amenities) but by starting his own web site as a platformfor the coming battle. Even the hacker ANONYMOUS is getting into the act as Jon Geeting reports. |
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Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 3:26 PM
The Name of the Place Is I Like it Like That: 20th and Annin Streets, Point Breeze
There's neighborhood in Philadelphia called Point Breeze. By any measure, it’s been abandoned and
abused by the economy, government and the larger community for decades. The neighborhood itself is essentially no
longer owned by the people that live there.
Point Breeze: Overwhelmed by absentee owners
It's not surprising that residents who are
left see how fragile things are, and can't be blamed for being suspicious of
change. |
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Posted on Monday, September 10, 2012 2:16 PM
Philadelphia Pennsylvania has been staring hard into the
face of essential tax reform. Unhappily, it's been doing so since at least the
late 1980s. The newest twist was last
spring's budget process, wherein new values meant to establish meaningful tax
rates were delayed.
The legislative body of Philadelphia was split into many
groups with different concerns.
Some Council members understood fully that their
constituents had been getting away with paying almost nothing in property taxes
for decades. |
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Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:21 PM
Strawberry Mansions Forever?
Since the early 1990s, the Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors has endorsed and advocated for land value tax in Philadelphia to both boost capital and property markets. After all, brokers make their earnings on a living - not a moribund - market.
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Joshua Vincent: Posted on Monday, July 09, 2012 5:07 PM
The City of Philadelphia has had issues with moving into the new century in many ways, but city leaders have been proactive in creating a Philadelphia Master Plan called Philadelphia 2035 to replace the outdated and shredded plans dating from 1960 expanding on Edmund Bacon's ambitious vision.
The new plan is a complex one, with visioning of a green and livable city, right-sized for the future, and also with an eye to economics. Taking cues from the Tax Reform Commission's work in the early 2000s, UrbanTools is pleased to see |
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