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-…
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 …
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 ›