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Upper Darby and Upper Providence townships and Ridley Park and Aldan boroughs will join other communities in the county that already collect the tax, Keystone Collections said in a Thursday, Nov. 13 news release.
This is a 1 percent tax assessed to residents regardless of where they work and to nonresidents who work in the community, according to Keystone Collections, the officials responsible for collecting the tax.
The tax becomes effective on Wednesday, Jan. 1, when the four communities will join the "vast majority of suburban Philadelphia communities" that have already imposed the tax for many years, Keystone Collections said.
Most residents in these four communities are already paying this tax in the jurisdictions where they work, Keystone Vice President Joe Lazzaro said in the news release. With the tax now imposed locally, that revenue will be kept in the "home community."
Those non-residents who already pay this tax in their own home community will not be double taxed, according to Keystone Collections. Likewise, residents working in Philadelphia who already pay the city's commuter tax will not owe the local earned income tax because of the Philly commuter tax credit.
More information on the tax can be found on the Keystone Collections website.
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