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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 243', '§ 6913', '§ 6913', '§ 243', '§ 8425', '§ 8426', '§ 243']

Borough of Waterford, PA Local Services Tax
Borough of Waterford, PA
Ch 17 ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION
Ch 64 SALARIES AND COMPENSATION
Ch 101 BUILDINGS, DANGEROUS
Ch 115 BURNING, OPEN
Ch 129 EMERGENCY SERVICES REIMBURSEMENT
Ch 151 HISTORIC DISTRICT
Ch 169 NUISANCES
Ch 177 PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS
Ch 188 PEDDLING AND SOLICITING
Ch 201 SEWERS
Ch 206 SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES
Ch 213 SKATEBOARDS
Ch 220 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Ch 227 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Ch 234 SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT
Ch 243 Art III Local Services Tax
§ 243-18 Short title.
§ 243-19 Definitions.
§ 243-20 Levy of tax.
§ 243-21 Exemption and refunds.
§ 243-22 Duty of employers to collect.
§ 243-23 Returns.
§ 243-24 Determination of liability and payment.
§ 243-25 Self-employed individuals.
§ 243-26 Involvement with multiple occupations or political subdivisions.
§ 243-27 Nonresidents subject to tax.
§ 243-28 Administration of tax.
§ 243-29 Suits for collection.
§ 243-30 Violations and penalties.
§ 243-31 Interpretation.
§ 243-32 Repealer; effect on existing taxes.
§ 243-33 Effective date; continuation.
Ch 249 TREES
Ch A290 BYLAWS OF COUNCIL
Chapter 243 TAXATION
Article III: Local Services Tax
[Adopted 12-17-2007 by Ord. No. 3-2007]
Chapter 243: TAXATION Article III Local Services Tax
This article shall be known and may be cited as "The Borough of Waterford Local Services Tax Ordinance."
BOROUGH OF WATERFORD or BOROUGH
The area within the corporate limits of the Borough of Waterford.
The person, public employee or private agency designated by the Borough of Waterford to collect and administer the tax herein imposed.
Compensation as this term is defined in Section 13 (relating to earned income taxes) of the Local Tax Enabling Act, the Act of December 31, 1965, P.L. 1257, Section 13, as amended, 53 P.S. § 6913, as amended.
Any person, male or female, engaged in any occupation, trade or profession within the corporate limits of the Borough of Waterford.
The net income from the operation of a business, profession; or other activity, as this term is defined in Section 13 (relating to earned income taxes) of the Local Tax Enabling Act, the Act of December 31, 1965, P.L. 1251, Section 13, as amended, 53 P.S. § 6913, as amended.
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 the Borough of Waterford for which compensation is charged or received; whether by means of salary, wages, commission or fees for services rendered.
The local services tax at the rate fixed in § 243-20 of this article.
[Amended 12-3-2013 by Res. No. 04-2012]
For specific revenue purposes, an annual tax is hereby levied and assessed, commencing January 1, 2008, upon the privilege of engaging in an occupation with a primary place of employment within the Borough of Waterford during the tax year. Each natural person who exercises such privilege for any length of time during any tax year shall pay the tax for that year in the amount of $52 assessed on a pro rata basis, in accordance with the provisions of this article. This tax may be used solely for the following purposes as the same may be allocated by the Borough Council from time to time: emergency services, which shall include emergency medical services, police services and/or fire services; road construction and/or maintenance; reduction of property taxes; or property tax relief through implementation of a homestead and farmstead exclusion in accordance with 53 Pa.C.S.A. Ch. 85, Subchapter F (relating to homestead property exclusion). The Borough of Waterford shall use no less than 25% of the funds derived from the tax for emergency services. This tax is in addition to all other taxes of any kind or nature heretofore levied by the Borough of Waterford. The tax shall be no more than $52 on each person for each calendar year, irrespective of the number of political subdivisions within which a person maybe employed.
Any person who has served in any war or armed conflict in which the United States was engaged and is honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from active service if, as a result of military service, the person is blind, paraplegic or a double or quadruple amputee or has a service-connected disability declared by the United States Veterans' Administration or its successor to be a total 100% disability.
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 form 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 B(2), 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 Borough 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 B(3).
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 B(2), 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 B(2), 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 article.
Refunds. The Borough Manager 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. (NOTE: With respect to refunds, see 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 8425; with respect to interest, see 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 8426.) 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 Manager or the Collector shall determine eligibility for exemption and provide refunds to exempt persons.
Each employer within the Borough of Waterford, as well as those employers situated outside the Borough of Waterford but who engage in business within the Borough of Waterford, 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 of Waterford 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 of Waterford.
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 one-hundredth 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 D 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.
The tax shall be no more than $52 on each person for each calendar year, irrespective of the number of political subdivisions within which a person may be employed. The Borough shall provide a taxpayer a receipt of payment upon request by the taxpayer.
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 § 243-43B of this article and this section and remits the amount so withheld in accordance with this article.
Each self-employed individual who performs services of any type or kind or engages in any occupation or profession within a primary place of employment within the Borough of Waterford shall be required to comply with this article and pay the pro rata portion of the tax due to the Collector on or before the 30th day following the end of each quarter.
All employers and self-employed individuals residing or having their places of business outside of the Borough of Waterford but who perform services of any type or kind or engage in any occupation or profession within the Borough of Waterford do, by virtue thereof, agree to be bound by and subject themselves to the provisions, penalties and regulations promulgated under this article with the same force and effect as though they were residents of the Borough of Waterford. Further, any individual engaged in an occupation within the Borough of Waterford and an employee of a nonresidential employer may, for the purpose of this article, be considered a self-employed person, and in the event his or her tax is not paid, the Borough of Waterford shall have the option of proceeding against either the employer or employee for the collection of this tax as hereinafter provided.
The Collector shall be appointed by resolution of the Borough Council. It shall be the duty of the Collector to accept and receive payments of this tax and to keep a record thereof showing the amount received by him from each employer of self-employed person, together with the date the tax was received.
The Collector is hereby charged with the administration and enforcement of this article and is hereby charged and empowered, subject to Borough Council approval, to proscribe, adopt and promulgate rules and regulations relating to any matter pertaining to the administration and enforcement of this article, including provisions for the examination of payroll records of any employer subject to this article, the examination and correction of any return made in compliance with this article 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 Erie County as in other cases provided.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to empower the Borough of Waterford 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.
Except as set forth hereafter, all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Nothing herein shall be construed to repeal the imposition and collection of an occupational privilege tax, plus applicable penalties and interest, for calendar year 2006 and all prior calendar years, or of an emergency and municipal services tax, plus applicable penalties and interest, for calendar year 2007, as the same exist prior to this article.
This tax imposed by this article shall be effective on January 1, 2008, and all calendar years thereafter unless repealed or modified by ordinance of the Borough Council.