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[deleted] OP t1_j6on076 wrote

Reply to comment by WhenRobLoweRobsLowes in If I already e-filed Fed&PA taxes, must I complete this "Local Earned Income Tax Return" from KEYSTONE collections group? by [deleted]

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WhenRobLoweRobsLowes t1_j6opz0l wrote

Because you pay a percentage of your income in taxes at federal, state, and local levels. Municipal / school taxes are the local level.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6orwj6 wrote

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ButtBlock t1_j6p5wh4 wrote

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. In my municipality, local earned income tax is completely separate and different from school taxes. Different computation, different basis, different collecting authority.

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MaybeADumbass t1_j6p0i9u wrote

> Sure, but "Local Earned Income Tax" is a specific thing, and that specific thing isn't municipal/school taxes.

Are you sure about that? The Earned Income Tax rate in Pittsburgh is 3%; 1% of that goes to the City, and 2% goes to the school district.

School taxes are based on property value AND earned income in the City and many other municipalities.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6p2mxq wrote

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MaybeADumbass t1_j6p4pjm wrote

> Sure, but "Local Earned Income Tax" is a specific thing, and that specific thing isn't municipal/school taxes.

Except that thing is only municipal and school (in some school districts) taxes. 0.5% of the 1.5% Local Earned Income Tax in Bellevue goes to the Northgate School District, and 1.0% goes to the municipality of Bellevue.

Plenty of people call them Municipal taxes because "municipal" just means relating to a city or town or its governing body. If you've never heard them called as such, maybe it's because your parents and/or teachers don't use the term?

> If you want to have a pedantic semantic argument, go be wrong somewhere else.

Ha!

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ButtBlock t1_j6p5krv wrote

Actuall school tax is different than LEIT. Also different from local services tax, PA unemployment tax, residency tax. PA has a huge problem making this more complicated than it needs to be. In NYC (the king of high taxes I might add) there was a spot on the state tax return where you computed local taxes and added them to the total. Done. 4 lines. No fuss.

The taxes aren’t even that much here. But think about how inefficient this is. What percentage of revenue that Keystone and Berkheimer collect actually goes to where it’s supposed to, after administrative fees.

Shit my town sent me a poll tax. Everyone who lives here (not just homeowners but renters too) have to pay 10 dollars a year just for living here. But you can only pay online and there’s a 3 dollar convenience fee. Thank you Berkheimer. Can you imagine if NYC was like hey you owe 2% income tax, but btw there’s a 30% “convenience fee.” PA really needs to clean this shit up. They’d save a lot of money in the process, too.

Edit: 3 dollar fee not 3%

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