Monday, April 15, 2013
Technical issues apparently kept some from filing their Pennsylvanian taxes.
If you’re a last minute tax filer, you have one more day to file your Pennsylvania taxes. The Commonwealth issued the following statement on its Facebook page: Due to technical issues that prohibited residents from accessing commonwealth websites including the Department of Revenue website and tax filing resources for a few hours earlier today, Revenue Secretary Dan Meuser announced the department will not impose penalties or interest on personal income tax returns filed on or before Tuesday, April 16. This does not impact the federal deadline to file your taxes, which is still Monday, April 15.
The post office is changing with the times.
It used to be that tax day meant local post offices would have extended hours, with some sites open until midnight for last-minute filers, but that is no longer the case. Local post offices will not have extended hours this year, according to Cathy Yarosky, Communications Programs Specialist for the Post Office. "According to the IRS, about 80% of all tax returns will be filed electronically this year….so our (tax return) volume is down considerably. As a result, no extended hours and no ‘midnight’ postmarks," Yarosky said in an email to Patch. Yarosky said first-class mail, which is what a tax return is considered, is down 25 percent in mail volume over the past 5 years. Did you file your tax return yet? Did you file through the post …
Monday, January 7, 2013
A special Tredyffrin Easttown School Board meeting is set for Monday night to determine whether higher taxes might be needed.
It's a meeting similar to one being held in school districts all around Pennsylvania this week. The Tredyffrin Easttown School Board will meet at 7:30 Monday night to consider the 2013-2014 budget and whether board members will think they need to raise taxes more than the 1.7% permitted by the state without a special exception. According to an announcement from the T/E School District: "The School Board will vote on using allowable exceptions to Act 1, the Pennsylvania Taxpayer Relief Act, to raise taxes above the State index of 1.7% for the 2013-2014 school year. If the Board votes to apply for the exceptions, the preliminary budget will be displayed on January 8, 2013 for public comment. The Board will then consider this preliminary …
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Supervisors in both townships vote for real estate tax increases in 2013 budgets.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
If you live in Tredyffrin or Easttown, your property taxes are going up. Supervisors in both townships approved new budgets Monday night that include tax increases. Tredyffrin Supervisors approved a 3.1% increase in the township's real estate tax. That will amount to about $16 per year for he average property in Tredyffrin Township. That is lower than the 5.5 percent increase called for in the first preliminary budget presented by township administrators to the Board of Supervisors. The final 2013 Tredyffrin budget, including the tax increase passed by a 4-3 margin. Details of the preliminary budget are posted on the township's website as of Tuesday morning at 6:30am. An updated version of the budget as passed is expected to be posted on …
Monday, November 12, 2012
A special public meeting is scheduled Tuesday morning to answer questions.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Tredyffrin Township's Board of Supervisors is being asked to consider raising township property taxes by 5.5% in the proposed 2013 township budget. The increase amounts to an average $28 per property owner according to the preliminary budget outlined in a public meeting last Wednesday. A copy of that budget presentation is attached to this article as a pdf. Township budget officials say the tax hike is needed to maintain services in the face of a flat and "built out" real estate market. What that means in layman's terms is that property reassesments reducing the tax base and that there is lilttle room left in the township to build new properties that could increase the tax base. The result is a need to get more money out of the properties…
Friday, October 12, 2012
The map is from Pew Charitable Trusts.
See what a study found out about your tax burden.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
The 7th District Congressman spent Friday touring local businesses to put a spotlight on tax rates ahead of next week's votes in Congress.
House Repblicans, under fire from the White House and Senate Democrats, are on a nationwide campaign this weekend to make their case for extending the current "Bush tax rates" next year. They will expire at the end of 2012 if The House, Senate, and President don't agree to extend the rates. Democrats want to extend the tax rates for (in general) people earning under $250,000. Republican say that would end up putting a huge new burden on many small business owners who file as individuals, not corporations, but whose businesses earn way over $250,000. Seventh District Congressman Pat Meehan, a moderate freshman Republican who is also running for reelection in the fall, toured several small businesses across Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Sixth District Congressman warns bad news for employment will result if Bush-era tax rates are not continued.
It is one of the hotly debated issues of this presidential election year. Should taxes be raised on the so-called rich? Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-PA6) has sent an email to constituents, which is also posted here on his website, stating his opposition to any tax increases, and citing a new report by the accounting firm Ernst & Young that Gerlach says indicates that "raising the top tax rates next year would cost 710,000 Americans their jobs and shrink the paychecks of workers by 1.8 percent." According to the Gerlach newsletter and website posting: The study examined what would happen if some of the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 -- and extended for two years by President Obama in 2010 -- were allowed to expire. The President and some …
Monday, March 26, 2012
The T/E School Board is working to close a big budget gap just over two months left on the clock.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you close a projected budget gap of $2.2million? One line item at a time. That's what the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District and School Board are racing to do between now and June 11, when the board is schedule to take a final vote on the 2012-2013 budget. For students anxious for summer vacation, June 11 may seem a long way away. For a district facing rising costs and tough decisions about taxes, June 11 is just around the corner. The Problem One of the biggest issue facing the board remains pensions. The T/E School Board,like every other school district in Pennsylvania, is on the hook for millions of dollars in guaranteed or "fixed" benefit payments to retired teachers. Over the …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Congressman issues a statement on his vote on extending the payroll tax rate.
- GOVERNMENT
- Bob Byrne
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate voted for a two month extension to the current payroll tax rate of 4.2 percent which is due to jump to 6.2 percent on January 1. Tuesday the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to reject the short-term approach and call on Senate Democrats, who have left Washignton for the Holidays, to return to Capitol Hill to negotiate with the House. U.S. Representative Jim Gerlach (R-PA6) issued a statement on the issue and his vote to reject the Senate Bill. Here is Gerlach's Statement on House Vote Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA-6th District) voted Tuesday to require Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to come back to work and give 160 million American workers a full one-year payroll tax cut extension…
gaveth
11:21 pm on Monday, April 15, 2013
Did any post office in Los Angeles area extend their hours?? more ›