By Shane Lord
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that gross receipts received by Verizon in connection with nonrecurring service charges—including telephone line installation, moves of or changes to telephone lines and service, and repairs of telephone lines—were not taxable under the Commonwealth’s gross receipts tax on telephone companies. The court distinguished these nonrecurring services
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While most states that have “click-through nexus” sales tax laws have issued little to no guidance addressing the scope of their provisions, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (Department) issued guidance explaining the types of payment mechanisms that will trigger nexus.
The Department’s ruling supplements a December 1, 2011 Tax Bulletin (Tax Bull. 2011-01)
The U.S. District Court (E.D. Pa.) remanded a case to Pennsylvania’s state courts in a suit challenging a local improvement district’s assessment scheme on the grounds that the federal courts lacked jurisdiction over the action based upon the Tax Injunction Act (TIA). Nigro v. City of Philadelphia, No. 10-987 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 25, 2010). The TIA generally prohibits federal courts from entertaining cases regarding state and local “taxes” if the parties have a “plain, speedy and efficient remedy” available in state court. Taxing jurisdictions frequently raise the TIA as a basis for dismissing cases filed by taxpayers in federal court. However, in this case, after the taxpayer filed suit in state court, the City removed it to federal court and the taxpayer was seeking to have the case remanded back to state court pursuant to the TIA.Continue Reading City of Philadelphia Loses TIA Challenge
When the going gets tough, the tax collector gets creative—or so it would seem, given two recent developments that border on the bizarre.
Amateur bloggers are suddenly discovering that, unbeknownst to them, they have been running a business—and the City of Philadelphia wants its cut. The City has informed a number of bloggers that
