Monday, November 26, 2012
The Hatboro Borough Council is holding a special meeting to approve the $52 per year local services tax.
Come January, working in Hatboro will cost more. The Hatboro Borough Council is poised to adopt its Local Services Tax ordinance at a special meeting on Wednesday at 9 a.m. Following approval, the existing $10 per year Occupational Privilege Tax will be replaced with a $52 per year Local Services Tax that will be levied against the 2,150 people who work in Hatboro and earn more than $12,000 per year. For 2013, Hatboro officials have said the higher tax would generate about $80,000 in all, or about $50,000 more than the Occupational Privilege Tax. In the coming years, the borough will net about $110,000 from the Local Services Tax because the $1 per week paycheck deductions from the last quarter of 2013 would actually be paid to Hatboro in …
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The Hatboro Borough Council is poised to adopt its 2013 budget on Dec. 17.
Hatboro taxpayers will not see an increase in municipal taxes in 2013, according to elected officials. While the spending plan has not yet been adopted, Councilman Vincent LaSorsa, a certified public accountant and the governing body's main overseer of the budget, said the borough had overestimated its health care costs for the coming year and had borough departments reduce their individual budgets based on the 2010 model. "That was a big piece of it," LaSorsa told Patch. That left the borough with a roughly $50,000 surplus, approximately what the projected shortfall was about two weeks ago. "There will be no tax increase for real estate taxes for 2013," Council President John Zygmont said during the meeting, adding that the yet-to-be-…
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Hatboro Borough Council this week advertised an ordinance for the adoption of a $52 per year local services tax.
Come January, people who work in Hatboro could begin seeing less of their paychecks. In fact, those who earn $12,000 or more per year would see $1 per week less under a proposed Local Services Tax that the Hatboro Borough Council is considering for adoption. During Monday night's meeting, the governing body voted to authorize advertisement of the ordinance. Council President John Zygmont said the potential $52-per-year tax on people employed within the borough would be discussed during the council's Nov. 5 meeting and is expected to be adopted on Nov. 19 following a public hearing. Zygmont said previously that the levy would help to minimize the "reality" of a property tax increase in 2013. If enacted, the Local Services Tax would become…
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Council President John Zygmont said a $52 local services tax, levied against Hatboro workers, could lessen the impact of a tax hike.
If last year’s budget process was any indication, Hatboro will once again be considering a budget with a tax boost, according to Council President John Zygmont. Just how much is yet to be determined. “We’re going to be seeing some type of a tax increase this year,” Zygmont said during Monday night’s council meeting. “It’s reality.” To help minimize that reality, Zygmont suggested the borough introduce an ordinance to create a $52 Local Services Tax. The council took no action Monday, but Zygmont said the governing body would need to make a decision at its Oct. 22 meeting so it could be put in place for January, when the tax would begin to be deducted. The tax would be deducted throughout the course of the year at $1 per week. The tax, if …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Hatboro Borough Council is considering an annual $52 Local Services Tax.
It could become costlier to work in Hatboro if the governing body moves forward with implementing an annual Local Services Tax. The tax, which can be levied at up to $52 per year for those employed within the borough, would replace the existing $10 Occupational Privilege Tax, Hatboro Council President John Zygmont said. “It’s where you work,” Zygmont said of who would be responsible for paying the tax. “It was put in that way so that towns, employment centers …. had a source of revenue … as opposed to passing on all of our municipal costs.” Zygmont said he is awaiting information from Berkheimer Tax Administrator to determine the amount of revenue that could be realized with the higher wage tax, as well as how many Hatboro residents …
Robert Applegarth
8:23 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
Typical taxpayer mentality. Did anyone stand up at one meeting and question this 520% increase in just one LITTLE $10.00 a year tax? Not. No representation taxation at its best. No tea bags anywhere? If the local officials, term used lightly, can pull this off without any protest, imagine what the national "good ol' boys" will do...just wait. If the local politicians can run unchecked, then the … more ›