Bill 150534
Amending Chapter 19-1200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parking Tax," by establishing a rate of taxation on parking transactions for fiscal year 2016 and thereafter.
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“To the President and members of the Council of the City of Philadelphia, the Committee of the Whole, to which was referred Bill No. 150162, entitled "An ordinance to adopt a Capital Program for the six Fiscal Years 2016 through 2021 inclusive"; and Bill No. 150163, entitled "An ordinance to adopt a Fiscal 2016 Capital Budget"; and Bill No. 150164, entitled "An ordinance adopting the Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2…”
Chief Clerk · Stated Meeting, June 11, 2015 · Jun 11, 2015 · official transcript, this passage
Status timeline
- Jun 4, 2015Introduced and Referred · CITY COUNCIL
- Jun 10, 2015HEARING NOTICES SENT · Committee of the Whole
- Jun 10, 2015HEARING HELD · Committee of the Whole
- Jun 10, 2015REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED · Committee of the Whole
- Jun 11, 2015ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR · CITY COUNCIL
- Jun 11, 2015SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL · CITY COUNCIL
- Jun 11, 2015READ AND ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK'S SECOND READING CALENDAR · CITY COUNCIL
- Jun 18, 2015READ AND PASSED · CITY COUNCIL
- Jun 18, 2015SIGNED · MAYOR
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..Title Amending Chapter 19-1200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parking Tax," by establishing a rate of taxation on parking transactions for fiscal year 2016 and thereafter. ..Body THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS: SECTION 1. Chapter 19-1200 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows: CHAPTER 19-1200. PARKING TAX. * * * § 19-1202. Imposition and Rate of Tax. (1) * * * (b) There is hereby imposed upon every person parking or storing a motor vehicle in or on any parking facility in the City, and upon every person who leaves a motor vehicle with a valet for parking in the City, between July 1, 1989 and June 30, 2008, inclusive, a tax of fifteen percent (15%) of the amount charged for the transaction, and [on] between July 1, 2008 [and thereafter] and June 30, 2015, inclusive, a tax of twenty percent (20%) of the amount charged for the transaction, and on July 1, 2015 and thereafter, a tax of twenty-two and one-half percent (22.5%) of the amount charged for the transaction, which tax shall be collected by the operator from the person parking or storing the vehicle, and shall be paid over to the City as provided herein. Pursuant to regulations to be issued by the Department, a valet parking operator shall be entitled to a credit against amounts remitted to the Department pursuant to Section 19-1203 in an amount equal to any parking tax paid by the valet parking operator to the operator of a parking facility on account of the parking of any motor vehicles with respect to which the valet parking operator collected and remitted a parking tax under this Section. * * * ____________________________________ Explanation: [Brackets] indicate matter deleted. Italics indicate new matter added. ..End