Jennifer Marsteller.
SANATOGA PA – The Montgomery County (PA) committee that will work on increasing the efficiency of local collection of earned income tax (EIT) revenues is scheduled to meet for the first time Oct. 28 (2009; Wednesday), according to Lower Pottsgrove Tax Collector Jennifer Marsteller.
Her announcement, made Monday (Oct. 5, 2009) during the township Board of Commissioners meeting at the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Road, Pottstown PA, brought the board up to date on activity surrounding one of its annual sources of funding.
Marsteller was appointed Sept. 3 (2009) by board members as their voting delegate to the Montgomery County Tax Collection Committee. The group is required, under a 2008 law that forces the EIT collection system to be restructured and reduced in size, to conduct its initial meeting by Nov. 15. That task will be completed two weeks before the deadline.
The number of companies involved in EIT collection statewide, and differences in their collection rates and techniques, has been heavily criticized. Committees in each Pennsylvania county, like the one on which Marsteller will be involved, must decide on how they’ll unify behind just one or two of the dozens of available firms, and how their choice will be supervised and paid.
Lower Pottsgrove and the Pottsgrove School District currently rely on Berkheimer Associates of Bangor PA for EIT collection.
The tax itself amounts to 1 percent – or $1 for every $100 – of wages, salaries or other income earned by municipal residents. Each dollar is evenly split between municipalities and the school districts in which they are located.
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