Official:Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Privilege Taxes," by extending the exclusion for the receipts of information technology companies, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Kenney
Introduced: October 19, 2006
: Committee on Finance
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2004–2007 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.
That is not unusual here. Of the 8,465 bills introduced between 2000 and 2025, 1,624 lapsed without a single recorded vote. Ninety percent of bills that became law carry a roll call. Three percent of lapsed bills do. How this works.
This bill extends a tax break for information technology companies in Philadelphia, allowing them to exclude their receipts from business privilege taxes for a certain period.
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This bill extends the tax exclusion for information technology companies in Philadelphia. The following changes are made
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