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Poll: Philadelphians believe new property tax system is less fair
- Tuesday, October 8, 2013
- By Jared Brey
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A poll conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts reveals that Philadelphians are unconvinced that the Actual Value Initiative (AVI), Mayor Michael Nutter’s overhaul of the city’s property tax assessment system, will…
Council Committee approves sales of property tax liens
- Tuesday, October 8, 2013
- By Jared Brey
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- City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.
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City Council’s Committee on Finance recommended a bill Friday afternoon that would authorize the city to sell property tax liens to private collectors. The practice, which is common in some other…
City Council adopts delinquent tax collection overhaul
- Thursday, June 6, 2013
- By Jared Brey
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- City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Philadelphia's City Council approved a top-to-bottom overhaul of the city's troubled property tax collection system Thursday, the latest in a series of state and local reforms designed to curb Philadelphia's worst-in-the-nation…
Council talks tax delinquency with city officials and collection agencies
- Tuesday, March 19, 2013
- By Patrick Kerkstra and Jared Brey
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- City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Senior members of the Nutter administration’s property tax collection team defended their record before a skeptical City Council committee Tuesday afternoon during the first in a series of hearings that are…
Council freshmen call for hearings on tax delinquency
- Thursday, February 7, 2013
- By Jared Brey
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- City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
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Each of the six newest members of City Council introduced resolutions Thursday morning calling for Council’s Committee of the Whole to hold hearings on various aspects of the city’s tax delinquency…
City's tax delinquency epidemic deepens
- Saturday, June 9, 2012
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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Philadelphia property tax delinquents piled up an additional $43.8 million in new debt over the last year, increasing the total amount owed to the city and financially desperate School District to…
Sheriff sales failing to round up promised bonanza of property tax deadbeats
- Friday, April 13, 2012
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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Two years ago, the City of Philadelphia offered its legions of tax deadbeats a once-in-a-generation chance at amnesty: a 54-day window to settle their accounts without paying a dime in penalties…
Mapping tax delinquent properties in Philadelphia
- Friday, September 16, 2011
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Taxes in Philadelphia After decades of weak collection efforts, property tax delinquency has become epidemic in Philadelphia. There are about 111,000 tax delinquent accounts in the city, or nearly one out…
How Philadelphia is failing to proceed on taxes owed
- Friday, September 16, 2011
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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Sometime in the next three months, state lawmakers will begin formally considering a bill that would make Philadelphia finally deal with its 100,000-plus backlog of tax-delinquent properties. It will not be…
Special report: How tax delinquent properties thwart development
- Monday, August 15, 2011
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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For most of its recent history, the 1700 block of Manton Street in Point Breeze was notable only as a 420-foot-long case study in Philadelphia’s ills. Violence? Check. Abandonment? Check. Crack…
Flawed delinquency records abound
- Monday, August 15, 2011
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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According to city records, a West Philadelphia company, Neighborhood Restorations, is one of the biggest property-tax deadbeats in town, owing $247,000 on nearly 300 tax-delinquent parcels. But the city records are…
Many delinquent properties have real market value
- Monday, August 15, 2011
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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How much are delinquent properties in Philadelphia actually worth? Some, like the Foxwoods casino site, are worth plenty. But there are many others — vacant lots and abandoned shells in some…
Broken assessment system complicates sales of delinquent property
- Monday, August 15, 2011
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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Annual property-tax bills in Philadelphia are determined by a relatively simple calculation: the tax rate (9.08 percent in 2012, 8.26 percent in 2011) times the assessed value of the property equals…
Special report: The delinquency crisis
- Saturday, August 13, 2011
- By Patrick Kerkstra
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Philadelphia runs the least-effective delinquent-property-tax collection system of the nation's biggest cities, a system that has created a “culture of nonpayment” and cost the city and cash-strapped School District $472 million…
