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Borough of Manor, PA LOCAL SERVICES TAX
Ch 24 Pt 4 LOCAL SERVICES TAX
§ 24-401 Definitions.
§ 24-402 Levy and Imposition of Tax.
§ 24-403 Local Services Tax in Addition to All Other Taxes.
§ 24-404 Exemptions and Refunds.
§ 24-405 Duty of Employers to Collect.
§ 24-406 Returns.
§ 24-407 Dates for Determining Tax Liability and Payment.
§ 24-408 Self-Employed Individuals.
§ 24-409 Individuals Engaged in More Than One Occupation or Employed in More Than One Municipality.
§ 24-410 Nonresidents Subject to Tax.
§ 24-411 Appointment of Collector and Administration of Tax.
§ 24-412 Suits for Collection.
§ 24-413 Violations and Penalties.
§ 24-414 Interpretation.
Part 4 LOCAL SERVICES TAX
[Ord. 522, 11/3/2010, § 1]
COLLECTOR or TAX COLLECTOR
The person, public employee or private agency designated by the Borough of Manor to collect and administer the tax herein imposed.
"Compensation" as defined in § 13 of the Local Tax Enabling Act, the Act of December 31, 1965, P.L. 1257, § 13, as amended and supplemented, and as determined under § 303 of the Act of March 4, 1971 (P.L. 6, No. 2), known as the "Tax Reform Code of 1971," and the regulations in 61 Pa. Code, Pt. 1, Subpart B, Art. V (relating to personal income tax); not including, however, wages or compensation paid to individuals on active military service. Employee business expenses are allowable deductions as determined under Article III of the "Tax Reform Code of 1971." The term does not include offsets for businesses losses. Any housing allowance provided to a member of the clergy shall not be taxable as earned income.
The twelve-month period beginning January 1st and ending December 31st, in any tax year.
Any person, male or female, engaged in any occupation, trade or profession within the corporate limits of the Borough of Manor.
MANOR BOROUGH
The Borough of Manor or where the context indicates, the area within the corporate limits of the Borough of Manor.
The net income from the operation of a business, profession, or other activity, (except from corporations), as this term is defined in § 13 of the Local Tax Enabling Act, the Act of December 31, 1965, P.L. 1257, § 13, as amended and supplemented, and as determined under § 303 of the Act of March 4, 1971 (P.L. 6, No. 2), known as the "Tax Reform Code of 1971," and regulations in 61 Pa. Code, Pt. I, Subpart B, Art. V (relating to personal income tax). The term does not include income which is not paid for services provided and which is in the nature of earnings from an investment. For taxpayers engaged in the business, profession or activity of farming the term shall not include:
Any interest generated from monetary accounts or investment instrument of the farming business.
Any gain on the sale of farming machinery.
Any gain on the sale of livestock held 12 months or more for draft, breeding or dairy purposes.
Any trade, profession, business or undertaking of any type, kind or character, including services, domestic or other, earned on or performed within the corporate limits of Manor for which compensation is charged or received; whether by means of salary, wages, commission or fees for services rendered.
The political subdivision in which a person maintains his principal office or is principally employed; or, the political subdivision in which a person resides and works; or, a political subdivision in which a person is employed, as of the first day the taxpayer first becomes subject to the tax during the calendar year.
RESERVE COMPONENT OF THE ARMED FORCES
The United States Army Reserve, United States Navy Reserve, United States Marine Corps Reserve, United States Coast Guard Reserve, United States Air Force Reserve, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.
The local services tax, at the rate fixed in this part.
The period from January 1 until December 31, in any year; a calendar year.
A person required to pay the tax imposed by this part.
For specific revenue purposes as hereafter identified, an annual tax is hereby levied, assessed and imposed, being a local services tax, in the amount of $52, upon privilege of each individual engaging in an occupation within the jurisdictional limits of the Borough of Manor during each fiscal year, beginning the first day of January, 2011, and continuing on a calendar year basis thereafter unless and until modified, amended or repealed. The tax shall be no more than $52 on each person for each tax year, irrespective of the number of political subdivisions within which a person may be employed.
The Borough shall use no less than 25% of the funds derived from the local services tax for emergency services, which shall include emergency medical services, police services and/or fire services.
The purposes of tax are for any or all of the following: (A) road construction and/or maintenance; (B) emergency services, which shall include police, fire and/or emergency medical services; and/or (C) reduction of property taxes, or (D) property tax relief through implementation of a homestead and farmstead exclusion as provided by law.
This local services tax shall be and is in addition to all other taxes levied, assessed and imposed by the Borough.
Any person who serves as a member of a reserve component of the armed forces and is called to active duty at any time during the taxable year. For the purposes of this paragraph, "reserve component of the armed forces" shall mean the United States Army Reserve, United States Navy Reserve, United States Marine Corps Reserve, United States Coast Guard Reserve, United States Air Force Reserve, the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.
A person seeking to claim an exemption from the local services tax may annually file an exemption certificate with the Borough and with the person's employer affirming that the person reasonably expects to receive earned income and net profits from all sources within the Borough of less than $12,000 in the calendar year for which the exemption certificate is filed. In the event the Borough utilizes a tax collection officer, it shall provide a copy of the exemption certificate to that officer. The exemption certificate shall have attached to it a copy of all the employee's last pay stubs or W-2 forms from employment within the Borough for the year prior to the fiscal year for which the employee is requesting to be exempted from the tax. Upon receipt of the exemption certificate and until otherwise instructed by the Borough or except as required by Subsection 2B, the employer shall not withhold the tax from the person during the calendar year or the remainder of the calendar year for which the exemption certificate applies. Employers shall ensure that the exemption certificate forms are readily available to employees at all times and shall furnish each new employee with a form at the time of hiring. The exemption certificate form shall be the uniform form provided by the Borough.
With respect to a person who claimed an exemption for a given calendar year from the tax, upon notification to an employer by the person or by the Borough that the person has received earned income and net profits from all sources within the Borough equal to or in excess of $12,000 in that calendar year or that the person is otherwise ineligible for the tax exemption for that calendar year, or upon an employer's payment to the person of earned income within the municipality in an amount equal to or in excess of $12,000 in that calendar year, an employer shall withhold the local services tax from the person under Subsection 2C.
If a person who claimed an exemption for a given calendar year from the tax becomes subject to the tax for the calendar year under Subsection 2B, the employer shall withhold the tax for the remainder of that calendar year. The employer shall withhold from the person, for the first payroll period after receipt of the notification under Subsection 2B, a lump sum equal to the amount of tax that was not withheld from the person due to the exemption claimed by the person under this subsection, plus the per payroll amount due for that first payroll period. The amount of tax withheld per payroll period for the remaining payroll periods in that calendar year shall be the same amount withheld for other employees. In the event the employment of a person subject to withholding of the tax under this clause is subsequently severed in that calendar year, the person shall be liable for any outstanding balance of tax due, and the Borough may pursue collection under this part.
Except as provided in Subsection 2B, it is the intent of this subsection that employers shall not be responsible for investigating exemption certificates, monitoring tax exemption eligibility or exempting any employee from the local services tax.
Refunds. The Borough of Manor, in consultation with the Collector and DCED, shall establish procedures for the processing of refund claims for any tax paid by any person who is eligible for exemption, which procedures shall be in accord with provisions of the general municipal law relating to refunds of overpayments and interest on overpayments. Refunds made within 75 days of a refund request or 75 days after the last day the employer is required to remit the tax for the last quarter of the calendar year, whichever is later, shall not be subject to interest. No refunds shall be made for amounts overpaid in a calendar year that do not exceed $1. The Borough of Manor or the Collector shall determine eligibility for exemption and provide refunds to exempt persons.
Each employer within the Borough, as well as those employers situated outside the Borough but who engage in business within the Borough, is hereby charged with the duty of collecting the tax from each of his employees engaged by him or performing for him within the Borough and making a return and payment thereof to the Collector. Further, each employer is hereby authorized to deduct this tax for each employee in his or her employ, whether said employee is paid by salary, wage or commission and whether or not all such services are performed within the Borough.
A person subject to the tax shall be assessed by the employer a pro rata share of the tax for each payroll period in which the person is engaging in an occupation. The pro rata share of the tax assessed on the person for a payroll period shall be determined by dividing the rate of the tax levied for the calendar year by the number of payroll periods established by the employer for the calendar year. For purposes of determining the pro rata share, an employer shall round down the amount of the tax collected each payroll period to the nearest 1/100 of a dollar. Collection of the tax shall be made on a payroll period basis for each payroll period in which the person is engaging in an occupation, except as provided in Subsection 4 of this section. For purposes of this subsection, combined rate shall mean the aggregate annual rate of the tax levied by the School District and the Borough.
No employer shall be held liable for failure to withhold the tax or for the payment of the withheld tax money to the Borough if the failure to withhold taxes arises from incorrect information submitted by the employee as to the employee's place or places of employment, the employee's principal office or where the employee is principally employed. Further, an employer shall not be liable for payment of the local services tax in an amount exceeding the amount withheld by the employer if the employer complies with the provisions of § 24-411, Subsection 2, of this part and this section and remits the amount so withheld in accordance with this part.
Each employer shall prepare and file a return showing a computation of the tax on forms to be supplied to the employer by the Collector. If an employer fails to file the return and pay the tax, whether or not the employer makes collection thereof from the salary, wages or commissions paid by him or her to an employee, except as provided hereafter in this part, the employer shall be responsible for the payment of the tax in full as though the tax had been originally levied against the employer.
Each employer shall use his employment and payroll records from the 1st day of January to March 31, each year for determining the number of employees from whom said tax shall be deducted and paid over to the collector on or before April 30, of the same calendar year. Supplemental reports shall be made by each employer on July 30, October 30 and January 31, for new employees as reflected on his employment and payroll records from April 1 to June 30, July 1 to September 30, and October 1 to December 31, and payments on these supplemental reports shall be made on July 30, October 30 and January 31, respectively.
Each self-employed individual who has earned income or realizes net profit, as those terms are defined herein, within the Borough shall be required to comply with this part and pay the tax due to the Collector on or before the 30th day following the end of each quarter.
First, the political subdivision in which a person maintains his or her principal office or is principally employed.
Second, the political subdivision in which the person resides and works if the tax is levied by that political subdivision.
Third, the political subdivision in which a person is employed and which imposes the tax nearest in miles to the person's home. In case of dispute, a tax receipt of the taxing authority for that calendar year declaring that the taxpayer has made prior payment constitutes prima facie certification of payment to all other political subdivisions.
All employers and self-employed individuals residing or having their places of business outside of the Borough but who perform services of any type or kind or engage in any occupation or profession within the Borough do, by virtue thereof, agree to be bound by and subject themselves to the provisions, penalties and regulations promulgated under this part with the same force and effect as though they were residents of the Borough. Further, any individual engaged in an occupation within the Borough and an employee of a nonresidential employer may, for the purpose of this part, be considered a self-employed person, and in the event his or her tax is not paid, the Borough shall have the option of proceeding against either the employer or employee for the collection of this tax as hereinafter provided.
The Collector duly appointed by the Borough Council, is hereby designated collector, receiver and administrator of the taxes levied and imposed by this part. It shall be the duty of the Collector to accept and receive payments of this tax and keep a record thereof showing the amount received by him from each employer or self-employed person, together with the date the tax was received. It shall be the duty of the Collector to accept and keep a record of the information submitted by employers relating to the number of employees subject to the tax, the number of employees exempt from the tax, the employee exemption certificates and refunds of the tax paid to individuals and employers.
The Collector is hereby charged with the administration and enforcement of this part and is hereby charged and empowered, subject to municipal approval, to proscribe, adopt and promulgate rules and regulations relating to any matter pertaining to the administration and enforcement of this part, including provisions for the examination of payroll records of any employer subject to this part, the examination and correction of any return made in compliance with this part and any payment alleged or found to be incorrect or as to which overpayment is claimed or found to have occurred. Any person aggrieved by any decision of the Collector shall have the right to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County after exhausting any administrative remedies, as in other cases provided.
In the event that any tax under this part remains due or unpaid 30 days after the due dates above set forth, the Collector may sue for the recovery of any such tax due or unpaid under this part, together with interest and penalty.
If for any reason the tax is not paid when due, interest at the rate of 6% on the amount of such tax shall be calculated beginning with the due date of the tax and a penalty of 5% shall be added to the flat rate of such tax for nonpayment thereof. Where suit is brought for the recovery of this tax or other appropriate remedy undertaken, the individual liable therefore shall, in addition, be responsible and liable for the costs of collection.
Whoever makes any false or untrue statement on any return required by this part, or whoever refuses inspection of the books, records or accounts in his or her custody and control setting forth the number of employees subject to this tax who are in his or her employment, or whoever fails or refuses to file any return required by this part shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days. The action to enforce the penalty herein prescribed may be instituted against any person in charge of the business of any employer who shall have failed or who refuses to file a return required by this part.
Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to empower the Borough to levy and collect the tax hereby imposed on any occupation not within the taxing power of the Borough under the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
If the tax hereby imposed under the provisions of this part shall be held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be in violation of the Constitution of the United States or of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as to any individual, the decision of the court shall not affect or impair the right to impose or collect said tax or the validity of the tax so imposed on other persons or individuals as herein provided.