POTTSTOWN PA – Passage of the Pottsgrove School District‘s 2011-2012 final budget, with a 1.8-percent tax increase, was the headline-grabbing action last week of the Board of School Directors. But as in many things, clean-up details also matter, and board members attended to a number of those during their June 27 meeting as well.
They continued what are known as “nuisance taxes,” small revenue generators that can amount to millions of extra dollars, without change; they designated the district’s official banks and tax collectors; and they re-appointed the district solicitor.
Continued and unchanged taxes were a:
- One-percent tax on earned personal income;
- Per capita tax of $5, levied on all Pottsgrove district residents age 18 or older;
- Local services tax of $5;
- Real estate transfer tax of 1 percent of a property’s purchase price; and
- Mercantile tax charged to business owners, at a rate of 1 mill to wholesalers and 1-1/2 mills to retailers.
Appointed as depositories, where the district will keep its money:
- Wells Fargo, Citizens, First Niagara, National Penn, TD, and WSFS banks;
- Tri-County Federal Credit Union;
- Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust; and
- Pennsylvania School District Liquid Asset Fund.
Named as tax collectors for:
- Local services taxes, H.A. Berkheimer Associates, headquartered in Bangor PA, for Lower and Upper Pottsgrove townships; and Theresa Yost for West Pottsgrove;
- Earned income tax, Berkheimer, at a fee of 1.39 percent;
- Delinquent per capital taxes, Berkheimer, at fees permitted by law;
- Mercantile taxes, Berkheimer, at a fee of 3 percent; and the
- Real estate transfer tax, the Montgomery County (PA) Recorder of Deeds in Norristown, at fees established by law.
The law firm of Fox Rothschild was retained as solicitor, most often represented at board meetings by attorney A. Kyle Berman, who is based in its Blue Bell office.
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