Summary: Act 153 of 2012 allowed municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 to create a land bank to more efficiently combat blighted, vacant and
Legislation sponsored by an Allegheny County state senator to mandate a cycle of property reassessments was introduced July 31 and has been referred to
Summary: Pittsburgh City Council is considering an ordinance that would provide property tax relief to longtime owner-occupants whose assessed values escalate when there is
Summary: Allegheny County is facing property assessment lawsuits. At the same time, the county’s elected officials have considered, and are considering, a number
Introduction: On June 26, the Allegheny County controller released the 2023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR). The controller described 2023 as “an ‘inflection point’
Summary: The 2024 preliminary budget for Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) shows spending will outstrip revenues. This has been the case for the past several
In February the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that Pennsylvania’s method of funding public education violated the state Constitution. For this fiscal year
Taxpayers in Monroeville, a suburb in the eastern part of Allegheny County and one of the County’s largest communities with more than 28,000 residents, are seeing firsthand the change in post-reassessment tax policy established by Act 71, a law passed by the General Assembly in 2005.
Discussing the Act 47 plan yesterday, Pittsburgh’s Mayor said this about the plan’s so called failsafe option of increasing taxes to fund budget shortfalls: "I
With all the tax talk of late-a possible boost in the state income tax, extending an extra percentage point on the sales tax to counties,
