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Tax cuts and open government, part two: I get out my stationary and stamps
Yesterday, Dan wrote:So, before we decide to cut business taxes or not, we should know how much every business- from big old Comcast to the smallest person just opening up shop, pays in taxes to the...
View ArticleNutter's first budget
I had been thinking about Michael Nutter's first budget address for the past 24 hours and feeling fine... until I got an email from Brett Mandel this morning with the subject line, "Tax...
View ArticleSo a very nice gentleman from the City Solicitor's office wrote me back
A couple weeks ago, I wrote to request records that would show exactly who pays what under the Business Privilege Tax (this is why). The request made it to the right people--the Revenue Department and...
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Who Do Business Tax Cuts Benefit?
A while back, we requested a bunch of data from the City on business tax records. The idea was that before we start cutting taxes more, we should look at the data, so that we can use reality-based...
View ArticleYou decide: no casinos or BPT cuts?
Our friends over at Old Philly Politics A.K.A. The Public Record have a pretty interesting editorial in this week's paper. The crux of it is this:In a campaign that proved wildly popular with the...
View ArticleNew effort to eliminate the BPT coming
You would think that, with the Nutter administration securing a substantial victory on tax policy, talk of the “job-killing business tax” would be on the decline. But that awful tax is not yet...
View ArticleUnraveling Library Debate Reveals BPT Elimination as Real Culprit, Part Deux
Way back in 2005, a funny looking little man named Ray wrote a post titled "Unraveling Library Debate Reveals BPT Elimination as Real Culprit":The real cause of library service reductions is the...
View ArticleSmall Businesses, and their Savior: Cutting Business Taxes
Remember this sheet? It shows the amount of Philadelphia business taxes paid by business size. We have talked about it a lot. Just as a reminder, it shows that for taxpaying businesses, the average...
View ArticleTax Reform can grow our economy according to Moody's Mark Zandi
Check out this great piece on the tax proposal by Maria and I. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20101024_Philadelphia_business-ta...Short version, do it now!
View ArticleGuv sez: Drop Dead, Mayor sez: Keep smilin'
Sub-Headline: Sorry, Can’t Really Sugarcoat This Stuff Folks.There’s no doubt that Philly’s in a heap of trouble from budgets being torturously made, as we speak, in Washington, Harrisburg and...
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