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Was the tax bill unpaid property tax or accrued interest and penalties on tickets?
It was more than likely property tax, that can get pretty high here, city government is pretty money hungry, and I've never been hunted down for not paying a skate ticket.
City wage tax.
They claimed i never filed... principle amount owed 40k. Penalty and interest over 8 years or so.. 117k.
Once they found out i didn't have copies... (my cpa at the time passed away without my knowledge).. they went in on me.
First they tried to get me for Capital Gains on a house i sold. But i still had paperwork on that sale... then some other shit.. then the wage tax.
They threw out every document my attorney presented.. then when the judge was accepting the payment of 40k (because there was nothing malicious or no proof of trying not to pay) This bitch Brandi Brice made a big deal in court about making me an example or whatever.. and judge changed his mind.
Fucked me up for quite a while.
"Mr Kalis we know who you are.." I'll never forget that shit. It was Brandi Brice and Mayor John Street personal vendetta towards me.
My attorney was no joke... and even he was like.. "in all my years of representing such and such... i have never seen anything like this".
it was a bad deal.
The city wage tax is still the worst. Philly's city government is a perfect example of why big government sucks.
Addendum: How did they get you on city wage tax when you didn't actually work for a company in the city? DC would've been So. Cal. and Alien Ohio. I always thought they took wage tax out only if you worked for a company in the city. I could be wrong, and I guess city hall will do what they want. I worked in the city for 8 years and had a ton of wage tax taken from my checks, but that stopped as soon as I started at a new company outside of the city.
I was a resident of MI at the time but property owner in the city.... it was a fucked up situation. I was straight.. but 8 years after i moved out of the city they came after me. There is a 3 year statute of limitations if you file... they claimed i never filed AFTER they found out i didn't have my copies and my CPA was MIA.
Even though my State, and Fed taxes were perfect.. the city wage is the only tax you cant look up. All other you can get copies of. Its total bullshit.
Keep your paperwork forever. Lesson learned.
Good to know, just bought a house here.
You owe Philly City Wage Tax if you live in the city, period. My wife works outside the city but still has to pay the full city wage tax because we live here. There is a separate rate (half I think) for out of towners who work in Philly.
Everyone hates the city wage tax but it's a holdover from Rizzo and all the 60's, 70's, and 80's administrations that didn't want to upset their voter bases with property tax increases. Easier to stick it to out of towners and people making more money. (At the same time the city was promising pensions that continue to pay workers who have been retired 30+ years and not funding them - this currently accounts for over 1/4 of the city budget, but I digress). Until recently, the property tax was absurdly low so even with the wage tax, if you were making under say 40k a year you'd still be paying less in total taxes than someone owning a house in a nearby (not fancy) suburb like Upper Darby. (Also, the city
Once you get into the higher wage brackets you can end up paying a shit ton of money to a city that can scarcely provide basic services and you start wondering why you don't move to somewhere that gets your kids in a decent public school.
Philadelphia Property taxes are all over the place now. Nearly everyone has seen a significant increase although some (like mine) are still very low in relation to home values. Also, every new property gets a 10 year tax abatement which means people with $5 million dollar condos pay almost nothing and this further incentivizes tearing down historic neighborhoods.
Back to DGKALIS's problem: it sounds like the city did not believe he was a not a city resident since they had personal dealings with him during the time period in question. Truth be told, it can be a thorny business if you appear to live one place and declare elsewhere home for tax reasons. There was just a story this week in the news about Steve Bannon doing this in FL (no property taxes) despite living in CA and DC.
You may be called upon to prove you spent a minimum amount of days in your declared state of residence and you might back that up with receipts for air travel, etc.
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