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Condo Owners Get Break on Trash Removal Costs with City Tax Credit Introduced Today

Official:Amending Chapter 19-1300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Real Estate Taxes," by providing for a credit against certain real estate taxes for owners of condominiums and cooperatives for a portion of such owners' costs of waste removal; all under certain terms and conditions.

Sponsor: Councilmember Clarke

Introduced: December 20, 2001

Voted: December 31, 2003

: Committee on Finance

finance housing taxation

No one voted on this bill

This bill was introduced in the 2000–2003 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.

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Plain-Language Summary

This bill provides a tax credit to condo and coop owners in Philadelphia for 50% of their waste removal costs. The credit is capped at $1 million per year.

What This Bill Does

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This bill makes the following changes

Provides a 50% tax credit for owners of condominiums and cooperatives for their waste removal costs.
Caps the total credit at $1 million per year.
Defines "solid waste" and "waste removal" for the purposes of the credit.
Entitles condominium unit owners and cooperative owners to receive the tax credit based on their actual waste removal costs or their proportionate share of a condominium association's costs.