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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 6901', '§ 107', '§ 107', '§ 1661']

Township of Chestnuthill, PA Taxation
Ch 107 Art I Earned Income and Net Profits Tax
§ 107-4 Imposition of tax.
§ 107-5 Declaration and payment of tax.
§ 107-6 Collection at source.
§ 107-7 Powers and duties of Officer.
§ 107-8 Compensation of Officer.
§ 107-9 Suit for collection of tax.
§ 107-10 Interest and penalties.
§ 107-11 Violations and penalties.
§ 107-12 Applicability.
Ch 107 Art II Real Estate Transfer Tax
§ 107-13 Title.
§ 107-14 Definitions.
§ 107-15 Imposition of tax.
§ 107-16 Payment of tax; compensation and bonding of collector; forms.
§ 107-17 Documentation requirements.
§ 107-18 Penalty for delinquent tax.
§ 107-19 Violations and penalties.
Chapter 107: Taxation
Chapter 107 : Taxation
[Adopted 5-2-1966 by Ord. No. 11; amended in its entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
This article is enacted under the authority of the Local Tax Enabling Act, 53 P.S. § 6901 et seq.
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Township of Chestnuthill Earned Income and Net Profits Tax Ordinance."
The place where one lives and has his permanent home and to which he has the intention of returning whenever he is absent. Actual residence is not necessarily "domicile," for "domicile" is the fixed place of abode which, in the intention of the taxpayer, is permanent rather than transitory. "Domicile" is the voluntary fixed place of habitation of a person, not for a mere special or limited purpose, but with the present intention of making a permanent home, until some event occurs to induce him to adopt some other permanent home. In the case of businesses or associations, the domicile is that place considered as the center of business affairs and the place where its functions are discharged.
Compensation as determined under Section 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 Part I, Subpart B, Article 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 amount of any housing allowance provided to a member of the clergy shall not be taxable as earned income.
EARNED INCOME AND NET PROFITS TAX OFFICER or OFFICER
That person, public employee, private agency or other entity designated by the Board of Supervisors to collect and administer the tax on earned income and net profits.
The net income from the operation of a business, profession, or other activity, except corporations, determined under Section 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 Part I, Subpart B, Article 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:
A person, partnership, association or other entity domiciled outside the Township.
A person, partnership, association or other entity domiciled in the Township.
Person, partnership, association or any other entity required hereunder to file a return of earned income or net profits or to pay a tax thereon.
The following taxes are hereby imposed, for general municipal purposes, under the authority of Act No. 511 of 1965, the Local Tax Enabling Act:
One percent of all earned income earned during the current year by residents.
One percent of all earned income earned during the current year by nonresidents for work done or services rendered in the Township of Chestnuthill.
One percent of all net profits earned during the current year by businesses, professions and other activities conducted by residents.
One percent of the net profits earned during the current year by businesses, professions and other activities conducted in the Township of Chestnuthill by nonresidents.
Every taxpayer making net profits shall, on or before April 15 of the current year, make and file with the Officer on a form prescribed or approved by the Officer, a declaration of his estimated net profits during the period beginning January 1 and ending December 31 of the current year and pay to the Officer in four equal quarterly installments the tax due thereon as follows: the first installment at the time of filing the declaration and the other installments on or before June 15 of the current year, September 15 of the current year and January 15 of the succeeding year, respectively.
Any taxpayer who first anticipates any net profit after April 15 of the current year shall make and file the declaration hereinabove required on or before June 15 of the current year, September 15 of the current year or December 31 of the current year, whichever of these dates next follows the date on which the taxpayer first anticipates such net profit and pay to the Officer in equal installments the tax due thereon on or before the quarterly payment dates which remain after the filing of the declaration.
Every taxpayer shall, on or before April 15 of the succeeding year, make and file with the Officer on a form prescribed or approved by the Officer a final return showing the amount of net profits earned during the period beginning January 1 of the current year and ending December 31 of the current year, the total amount of tax due thereon and the total amount of tax paid thereon. At the time of filing the final return, the taxpayer shall pay to the Officer the balance of tax due or shall make demand for refund or credit in the case of overpayment.
The Officer is hereby authorized to provide by regulation for the making and filing of adjusted declarations of estimated net profits and for the payments of the estimated tax in cases where a taxpayer who has filed the declaration hereinabove required anticipates additional net profits not previously declared or finds that he has overestimated his anticipated net profits.
Annual earned income tax return. Every taxpayer shall, on or before April 15 of the succeeding year, make and file with the Officer on a form prescribed or approved by the Officer, a final return showing the amount of earned income received during the period beginning January 1 of the current year and ending December 31 of the current year, the total amount of tax due thereon, the amount of tax paid thereon, the amount of tax thereon that has been withheld pursuant to the provisions relating to the collection at source and the balance of tax due. At the time of filing the final return, the taxpayer shall pay the balance of the tax due or shall make demand for refund or credit in the case of overpayment.
Earned income not subject to withholding. Every taxpayer who is employed for a salary, wage, commission or other compensation and who received any earned income not subject to the provisions relating to collection at source, shall make and file with the Officer on a form prescribed or approved by the Officer, a quarterly return on or before April 30 of the current year, July 31 of the current year, October 31 of the current year and January 31 of the succeeding year, setting forth the aggregate amount of earned income not subject to withholding earned by him during the three-month periods ending March 31 of the current year, June 30 of the current year, September 30 of the current year and December 31 of the current year, respectively, and subject to the tax, together with such other information as the Officer may require. Every taxpayer making such return shall at the time of filing thereof pay to the Officer the amount of tax shown as due thereon.
Every employer having an office, factory, workshop, branch, warehouse or other place of business within the Township who employs one or more persons, other than domestic servants, for a salary, wage, commission or other compensation, who has not previously registered, shall, within 15 days after becoming an employer, register with the Officer his name and address and such other information as the Officer may require.
Every employer having an office, factory, workshop, branch warehouse or other place of business within the Township who employs one or more persons, other than domestic servants, for a salary, wage, commission or other compensation, shall deduct at the time of payment thereof, the tax imposed by this article on the earned income due to his employee or employees and shall, on or before April 30 of the current year, July 31 of the current year, October 31 of the current year and January 31 of the succeeding year, file a return and pay to the Officer the amount of taxes deducted during the preceding three-month period ending March 31 of the current year, June 30 of the current year, September 30 of the current year and December 31 of the current year, respectively. Such return unless otherwise agreed upon between the Officer and employer shall show the name and social security number of each such employee, the earned income of such employee during said preceding three-month period, the tax deducted therefrom, the political subdivisions imposing the tax upon such employee, the total earned income of all such employees during such preceding three-month period and the total tax deducted therefrom and paid with the return.
Any employer who for two of the preceding four quarterly periods has failed to deduct the proper tax, or any part thereof, or has failed to pay over the proper amount of tax to the Township, may be required by the Officer to file his return and pay the tax monthly. In such cases, payments of tax shall be made to the Officer on or before the last day of the month succeeding the month for which the tax was withheld.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 9 of Act 511 of 1965, every employer who willfully or negligently fails or omits to make the deductions required by this section shall be liable for payment of the taxes which he was required to withhold to the extent that such taxes have not been recovered from the employee.
The Officer, before entering upon his official duties, shall give and acknowledge a bond to the Township in such amount and with such surety as designated from time to time by the Board of Supervisors.
The Officer is hereby empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to any matter pertaining to the administration and enforcement of this article, including provisions for the reexamination and correction of declarations and returns and of payments alleged or found to be incorrect, or as to which an overpayment is claimed or found to have occurred and to make refunds in case of overpayment, for any period of time not to exceed six years subsequent to the date of payment of the sum involved, and to prescribe forms necessary for the administration of this article. No rule or regulation of any kind shall be enforceable unless it has been approved by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. A copy of such rules and regulations currently in force shall be available for public inspection.
The Officer shall refund, on petition of and proof by the taxpayer, earned income tax paid on the taxpayer's ordinary and necessary business expenses to the extent that such expenses are not paid by taxpayer's employer.
The Officer and agents designated by him are hereby authorized to examine the books, papers and records of any employer or of any taxpayer or of any person whom the Officer reasonably believes to be an employer or taxpayer, in order to verify the accuracy of any declaration or return or if no declaration or return was filed, to ascertain the tax due. Every employer and every taxpayer and every person whom the Officer reasonably believes to be an employer or taxpayer is hereby directed and required to give to the Officer, or to any agent designated by him, the means, facilities and opportunity for such examination and investigations, as are hereby authorized.
Any information gained by the Officer, his agents or by any other official or agent of the Township, as a result of any declarations, returns, investigations, hearings or verifications required or authorized by this article shall be confidential, except for official purposes and except in accordance with a proper judicial order or as otherwise provided by law.
The Officer shall distribute earned income taxes to the appropriate political subdivisions within 60 days of the deadline for payment by an employer as set forth in § 107-6B. The political subdivisions shall not be required to request the Officer to distribute the funds collected but shall at least annually reconcile their receipts with the records of the Officer and return to or credit the Officer with any overpayment. A political subdivision shall not be required to pay a fee or commission to the other political subdivision or its tax officer for tax revenue distributed under this subsection. If the Officer, within one year after receiving a tax payment, cannot identify the taxing jurisdiction entitled to a tax payment, he shall make payment to the municipality in which the tax was collected. If earned income taxes are not distributed to the appropriate political subdivision within one year of receipt, the political subdivision may make a written demand on a tax officer or political subdivision for tax revenues collected and attributable to residents of the political subdivision making the demand. If the taxes attributable to residents of the political subdivision making the demand are not paid within 30 days from the date of the demand, the political subdivision, person, public employee or private agency designated by the political subdivision may enter into an arbitration agreement with the officer under 42 Pa.C.S.A. Ch. 73, Subch. A (relating to statutory arbitration), or bring an action in an appropriate court of common pleas in the name of the taxing district for the recovery of taxes not distributed in accordance with this subsection. The action must be brought within seven years of the collection of the taxes.
The Officer shall receive such compensation for his services and expenses as determined by the Board of Supervisors.
The Officer may sue in the name of the Township for the recovery of taxes due and unpaid under this article.
Where no declaration or return was filed by any person although a declaration or return was required to be filed by him under provisions of this article there shall be no limitation.
Where an examination of the declaration or return filed by any person or of other evidence relating to such declaration or return in the possession of the Officer reveals a fraudulent evasion of taxes there shall be no limitation.
Where any person has deducted taxes under the provision of this article and has failed to pay the amounts so deducted to the Officer, or where any person has willfully failed or omitted to make the deductions required by § 107-6, there shall be no limitation.
This section shall not be construed to limit the Board of Supervisors from recovering delinquent taxes by any other means provided by law.
If for any reason the tax is not paid when due, interest at the rate of 6% per annum on the amount of said tax and an additional penalty of 1/2 of 1% of the amount of the said tax for each month or fraction thereof during which the tax remains unpaid shall be added and collected. Where suit is brought for the recovery of any such tax, the person liable therefor shall, in addition, be liable for the costs of collection and the interest and penalties herein imposed.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A, the governing body may, by ordinance or resolution, establish a one-time period during which interest or interest and penalties that would otherwise be imposed for the nonreporting or underreporting of earned income tax liabilities or for the nonpayment of earned income taxes previously imposed and due shall be waived in total or in part if the taxpayer voluntarily files delinquent returns and pays the taxes in full during the period so established. The governing body may adopt regulations to implement the provisions of this subsection.
The provisions of Subsection B shall not affect or terminate any petitions, investigations, prosecutions or other proceedings pending under the provisions of this article or prevent the commencement or further prosecution of any proceedings by the proper authorities for violations of this article. No proceedings shall, however, be commenced on the basis of delinquent returns filed pursuant to Subsection B, if the returns are determined to be substantially true and correct and the taxes are paid in full within the prescribed time.
Any person who fails, neglects or refuses to make any declaration or return required by this article, any employer who fails, neglects or refuses to register or to pay the tax deducted from his employees or fails, neglects or refuses to deduct or withhold the tax from his employees and any person who refuses to permit the Officer or any agent designated by him to examine his books, records and papers and any person who knowingly makes any incomplete, false or fraudulent return or attempts to do anything whatsoever to avoid the full disclosure of the amount of his net profits or earned income in order to avoid the payment of the whole or any part of the tax imposed by this article shall, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice or court of competent jurisdiction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500 for each offense and costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 30 days.
Any person who divulges any information which is confidential under the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice or court of competent jurisdiction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500 for each offense and costs and, in default of payment of said fines and costs, to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 30 days.
This article shall not apply to any person or property as to whom or which it is beyond the legal power of the Township to impose the tax or duties herein provided for.
[Adopted 11-3-1970 by Ord. No. 16]
The short title of this article shall be the "Real Estate Transfer Tax Ordinance of 1970 of the Township of Chestnuthill."
The following words, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
A partnership, limited partnership or any other form of unincorporated enterprise owned or conducted by two or more persons.
Such person, firm or corporation as shall be designated from time to time by the Supervisors of Chestnuthill Township.
A corporation or joint-stock association organized under the laws of this commonwealth, the United States or any other state, territory or foreign country or dependency, including but not limited to banking institutions.
The instrument whereby a transfer is effected.
Every natural person, association or corporation. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a fine and imprisonment, or both, the term "person," as applied to associations, shall mean the partners or members thereof and, as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
The Township of Chestnuthill in the County of Monroe and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any transaction whereby any lands, tenements or hereditaments or any real property within the Township or any interest therein shall be quitclaimed, bargained, sold or otherwise conveyed to the grantee, purchaser or transferee, regardless of where the instrument making such transfer is made, executed or delivered or where the actual settlement on such transfer takes place, but does not include wills, mortgages, transfers between corporations, operating housing projects pursuant to the Housing and Redevelopment Assistance Law[1] and the shareholders thereof, transfers between nonprofit industrial development agencies and industrial corporations purchasing from them, any transfers to nonprofit industrial development agencies and transfers between husband and wife, transfers between persons who were previously husband and wife but who have since been divorced, provided that such transfer is made within three months of the date of the granting of the final decree of divorce and the property or interest therein subject to such transfer was acquired by the husband and wife or husband or wife prior to the granting of the final decree in divorce, transfers between parent and child or the spouse of such a child or between parent and trustee for the benefit of a child or the spouse of such child, transfers by and between a principal or straw party for the purpose of placing a mortgage or ground rent upon the premises, correctional deeds without consideration, transfers to the United States, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to any of their instrumentalities, agencies or political subdivisions by gift, dedication or deed in lieu of condemnation or deed of confirmation in connection with condemnation proceedings or reconveyance by the condemning body of the property condemned to the owner of record at the time of condemnation, which reconveyance may include property line adjustments, provided that said reconveyance is made within one year from the date of condemnation, leases, a conveyance to a trustee under a recorded trust agreement for the express purpose of holding title in trust as security for a debt contracted at the time of the conveyance under which the trustee is not the lender and requiring the trustee to make reconveyance to the granter/borrower upon the repayment of the debt or a transfer by the owner of previously occupied residential premises to a builder of a new residential premises when such previously occupied residential premises is taken in trade by such builder as part of the consideration from the purchaser of a new, previously unoccupied residential premises, any transfer from a purchase money mortgagor to the vendor holding the purchase money mortgage, whether pursuant to a foreclosure or in lieu thereof, or conveyances to municipalities, townships, school districts and counties pursuant to acquisition by municipalities, townships, school districts and counties of tax delinquent properties at sheriff sale or tax claim bureau or any transfer between religious organizations or other bodies or persons holding title to real estate for a religious organization if such real estate is not being or has not been used by such transferor for commercial purposes.
The amount of the actual consideration for a transfer, including liens or other encumbrances thereon and ground rents or a commensurate part of the liens or other encumbrances thereon and ground rents, where such liens or other encumbrances and ground rents also encumber or are charged against other lands, tenements or hereditaments or other real property, provided that where the document shall set forth a small or nominal consideration, the "value" thereof shall be determined from the price set forth in or actual consideration for the contract of sale or, in the case of a gift or any other document without consideration, from the actual monetary worth of the property granted, bargained, sold or otherwise conveyed, which, in either event, shall not be less than the amount of the highest assessment of such lands, tenements or hereditaments or other real property for local tax purposes.
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 1661.
A tax for general Township revenue purposes is hereby levied and imposed on transfers at the rate of 1% of the value of such transfer for the calendar year beginning January 1, 1971, and ending December 31, 1971, and annually thereafter for calendar years commencing January 1, 1972, which tax shall be in addition to all other taxes levied and assessed by the Township pursuant to any other laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Such tax shall be due from and payable by the grantee, purchaser or transferee in the document at the time of transfer, provided that if the grantee, purchaser or transferee is exempt from said tax under the provisions of this article, the tax in such cases shall be due from and payable by the grantor, seller or transferor in the document at the time of transfer.
The tax imposed by this article shall be collected by the collector designated by the Supervisors of Chestnuthill Township, who is hereby appointed as the agent of the Township for the collection of said tax. Payment of said tax shall be made to the collector, who shall evidence the payment of said tax by stamping upon the document a receipt for said tax, as follows:
Board of Supervisors of Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAX ORDINANCE OF 1970.
The collector shall receive a commission of the amount of tax so collected, which commission shall be in such amount or percentage as may be fixed from time to time by the Supervisors of Chestnuthill Township, and, within 10 days after the end of each calendar month, shall furnish a written report to and in a form to be prescribed by the Township showing as to each document the date of recording, the name of the grantor, seller or transferor, the name of the grantee, purchaser or transferee, the value of the transfer and the amount of tax collected and pay over to the Treasurer of the Township the total amount of tax collected under this article during the preceding calendar month, less the amount of commission due the collector thereon.
The collector shall give bond to the Township secured and conditioned for the collection, accounting for and paying over of such taxes in an amount to be fixed by the Township by resolution. Such bond shall have thereon as surety at least one bonding company which is on the list of approved bonding companies in the office of the Prothonotary of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, in accordance with Rule XXXIII of the Court of Common Pleas of said county. The premium on said bond shall be paid by the Township. Said bond shall be filed with the Secretary of the Township.
The Secretary of the Township is hereby authorized and directed to have the necessary stamps, report forms and any other supplies necessary for the collection of the tax imposed by this article manufactured or prepared and delivered to the collector from time to time.
Every document, when lodged with or presented to the collector, shall set forth therein and as a part of such document the true, full and complete value of the transfer or shall be accompanied by an affidavit executed by the person required to pay the tax imposed by this article, or the agent or attorney of such person showing the connection of such person with the transfer and setting forth the true, full and complete value of the transfer or the reason, if any, why such transfer is not subject to said tax.
All taxes imposed by this article which are not paid when due shall bear interest thereon at the rate of 1/2 of 1% per month until paid. Such taxes, when due and unpaid, shall become a lien in favor of the Township on the lands, tenements, hereditaments or other real property or any interest therein which is described in the document and shall be collected by the Township as other taxes are collected. The Secretary of the Township is hereby authorized and directed to file a municipal or tax claim for said tax and interest thereon in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the Municipal Claims Act of May 16, 1923, P.L. 207, as amended and supplemented.[1]
Any person who shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of this article shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense. The fine imposed by this section shall be in addition to any other penalty imposed by any other section of this article.