City Government Plays Nice On Business Tax Reform
After months of contentious back-and-forth with wildly opposing views on business tax reform, it seems that both sides of the debate have put aside their differences and are singing a different tune. Instead of today’s scheduled City Council hearing to discuss the bill proposed by Councilmembers Bill Green and Maria Quinones-Sanchez, Mayor Nutter held a...
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Are “75,000 Jobs” The “Death Panels” Of Business Tax Reform?
Today, the business privilege tax reform proposed by Council members Bill Green and Maria Quiñones-Sánchez won’t be voted on in committee as expected. Instead, it’s being held, perhaps to negotiate a compromise with the Nutter administration, which has opposed the bill. We’ll know more after a press conference this afternoon with Nutter, Council...
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Gloves Come Off in Business Tax Battle, Green vs. Butkovitz
One day, we might straighten out taxes in Philadelphia, stimulate growth and create a utopia of small businesses, with jobs available for all. But if it happens, it won’t be without a fight, because the major players can’t agree on how to do it. Now, it’s starting to get personal. Today, City Controller Alan Butkovitz weighed in on the Bill...
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Council Hosts Sorority Party, To Kill “Blogger Tax?”
Slow day in City Council today, so Marian Tasco and Blondell Reynolds Brown threw a sorority party, inviting their sisters from Delta Sigma Theta up to take pictures and do keg-stands (only one of those statements is true). The Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition was also honored for being awesome in the normal self-congratulatory opening moments of...
Continue ReadingChamber Chimes In On BPT Overhaul
With The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been in the news a lot recently. See, the right wing business lobbying group won’t disclose its donors and is running smear ads against Democrats. Such ads have been met by a Democratic revolt against the “national chamber,” possibly getting Iraqi/Chinese/Sudanese money to fund such ads — though the national...
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Council Amends Business Privilege Tax
Today’s City Council meeting on the Business Privilege Tax was short, sweet and productive. No, that is not a punchline, they actually accomplished something in an efficient manner. The tax credit program needed some tweaking, and so tweak it they did. For those unfamiliar with the program, it is a very beneficial tax credit program that provides funding...
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