The Tax That Really Wasn’t

The Tax That Really Wasn’t

As a quick follow up to our entry earlier this week on the Steel Valley school board’s discussion of a parking space tax, one of the directors argued that "Robinson Township has a similar tax on the books and it looks like Robinson Town Centre is doing just fine".

Well Robinson is doing fine, and it is likely because the township in fact does not have a parking space tax on its tax menu. It was discussed in 2008, which prompted an Allegheny Institute Brief soon after which raised the problems associated with taxing free parking. The tax was never approved, which was confirmed by both the administration office and the tax collector of that municipality. Hopefully the director doesn’t believe that the City of Pittsburgh has a tuition tax just because that tax was briefly entertained.

For now, cooler heads have prevailed in Steel Valley and the tax has been tabled.