Official:Amending Title 19 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Finance, Taxes and Collections," to include transfers between stepparents and stepchildren as a transaction excluded from the realty transfer tax.
Sponsor: Councilmember Parker
Introduced: January 26, 2017
Signed: May 11, 2017
: Committee on Finance
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill amends the Philadelphia Code to exclude transfers between stepparents and stepchildren from the realty transfer tax.
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