Official:Amending The Philadelphia Code to add a new Section, entitled “Good Parking Jobs for Philadelphia Review Committee,” to provide for the creation of an advisory body to consider the quality of jobs and opportunities for workers in the parking industry and the potential to make adjustments to the Parking Tax, including with respect to the goal of reducing the parking tax to seventeen percent by July 1, 2022, based on a review of working conditions in the parking industry, and to provide reports related thereto, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Parker
Introduced: June 25, 2020
Signed: November 19, 2020
: Committee on Finance
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill creates an advisory committee to review working conditions in the parking industry and make recommendations for adjusting the Parking Tax. The goal is to reduce the tax rate from 19% to 17% by July 2022.
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