Mark SquillaTHE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
Chapter 19-1300 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended as follows:
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For tax year 2014 and thereafter:
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(a.2)
For tax [year 2016 and thereafter,]
years 2016 through 2018,
the Tax Rate shall be 0.6317%, or sixty-three and seventeen one hundredths cents ($0.6317) per hundred dollars ($100).
(a.3) For tax year 2019 and thereafter, the Tax Rate shall be 0.5733%, or fifty-seven and thirty-three one hundredths cents ($0.5733) per hundred dollars ($100).
A tax is hereby levied on all real property in the City in an amount equal to the product formed by multiplying the Tax Rate by the Net Taxable Value of the property. Net Taxable Value shall be calculated by subtracting the amount of Homestead Exclusion, if any, provided for in § 19-1301.1, from the assessed value of the property returned by the OPA in the year immediately preceding the tax year, but in no event may Net Taxable Value be less than zero.
OPA stands for the Office of Property Assessment.
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Chapter 19-1800 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended as follows:
The Board of Education of The School District of Philadelphia is authorized to impose an annual tax for school district purposes on real estate within the City of Philadelphia for the years 1964 through [2018]
2019
and thereafter.
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For tax year 2014 and thereafter:
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(a.2)
For tax year 2016 [and thereafter,]
through tax year 2018,
the Tax Rate shall be 0.7681%, or seventy-six and eighty-one hundredths cents per one hundred dollars ($100) of Net Taxable Value.
(a.3)
For tax year 2019 and thereafter, the Tax Rate shall be 0.8265%, or eighty-two and sixty-five one hundredths cents per one hundred dollars ($100) of Net Taxable Value.
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Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
A motion was made by Councilmember Gym that this matter be Introduced and Referred to the Committee on Finance. The motion carried unanimously.
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