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Philadelphia Businesses Can Now Claim Up To 1000 Tax Credit Dollars For Installing Surveillance Cameras

Official:Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Income and Receipts Taxes," by providing a "Video Surveillance Camera Tax Credit" for costs incurred to purchase and install a video surveillance camera.

Sponsor: Councilmember Johnson

Introduced: October 31, 2013

: Committee on Public Safety

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No one voted on this bill

This bill was introduced in the 2012–2015 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 of up to $1,000 for businesses that purchase and install video surveillance cameras, as long as they are registered with the SafeCam program and pointed towards the public right-of-way.

What This Bill Does

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Creates a tax credit of up to $1,000 for businesses that purchase and install video surveillance cameras.
Requires businesses to register their cameras with the SafeCam program to be eligible for the tax credit.
Requires cameras to be pointed towards the public right-of-way to be eligible for the tax credit.
Establishes definitions for "video surveillance camera" and "SafeCam program" for the purposes of the tax credit.