A new process is in place to collect delinquent taxes.
The City of Philadelphia began a new measure to collect delinquent taxes from City pension benefit recipients. Currently, the City of Philadelphia has 33,000 pensioners and beneficiaries receiving pension benefits. Of that, approximately 2,500 owe $12.9 million to the City in delinquent taxes. The City, through the Revenue Department, is taking a more aggressive approach in attempting to retrieve owed tax monies. . ARTICLE 1
If You Don't Want the Mayor to Come Callin', Pay Up.
If you don't want to be subjected to a sheriff's sale, pay up fast.
Continuing efforts to rein in the city's deadbeat taxpayers, Mayor Nutter stood outside a Northeast Philadelphia podiatry practice Tuesday and demanded that the owner cough up an estimated $114,000 in back taxes and penalties.
"This is not a threat. It's very real, and I'm not playing," Nutter said of his administration's commitment to collecting overdue taxes ... ARTICLE 1