ARTICLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS

For the purpose of these regulations, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except when the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:

A. "The Ordinance" means the Approving Subdivision Earned Income Tax Ordinance or Resolution.

B. "Association" means a partnership, limited partnership or any other unincorporated group of two or more persons.

C. "Business" means an enterprise, activity, profession, or undertaking of any nature conducted for profit, or ordinarily conducted for profit, whether by an individual, partnership, association, or any other entity.

D. "Corporation" means a corporation or joint stock association organized under the laws of the United States, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any other State, territory, foreign country or dependency.

E. "Earned" means [t]The time when income is earned is when service is rendered. The time when net profits are earned is the same as that of income.

F. "Employer" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, governmental body or unit or agency, or any other entity employing one or more persons on a salary, wage, commission, or other compensation basis.

G. "Nonresident" means an individual, partnership, association, or other entity domiciled outside the Approving Subdivision.

H. "Current year" means tThe calendar year for which the tax is levied.

I. "Domicile" means [t]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 place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of himself and his family, 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 cases of businesses, or associations, the domicile is that place considered as the center of business affairs and the place where its functions are discharged.

J. "Earned Income" means the [s]Salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, incentive payments, fees, tips and other compensation received by a person or his personal representative for services rendered, whether directly or through an agent, and whether in cash or in property; not including, however, wages or compensation paid to persons on active military service, periodic payments for sickness and disability or retirement or payments arising under workmen's compensation acts, occupational disease acts and similar legislation, or payments commonly recognized as old age benefits, retirement pay or pensions paid to persons retired from service after reaching a specific age or after a stated period of employment or payments commonly known as public assistance, or unemployment compensation payments made by any governmental agency or payments to reimburse expenses or payments made by employers or labor unions for wage and salary supplemental programs, including, but not limited to, programs covering hospitalization, sickness, disability or death, supplemental unemployment benefits, strike benefits, social security and retirement.

K. "Income Tax Officer" means the Director, Earned Income Tax Division, Capital Area Tax Collection Bureau.

L. "Net Profits" means [t]The net income from the operation of a business, profession, or other activity, except corporations, after provision for all costs and expenses incurred in the conduct thereof, determined either on a cash or accrual basis in accordance with the accounting system used in such business, profession, or other activity, but without deduction of taxes based on income.

M. "Preceding year" means [t]The calendar year before the current year.

N. "Succeeding year" means [t]The calendar year following the current year.

O. "Person" means a natural person.

P. "Resident" means an individual, partnership, association, or other entity domiciled in the Approving Subdivision.

Q. "Taxpayer" means a person, when an individual, a member of a co-partnership, association, or any other entity, required by the Ordinance to (1) file a return on earnings or net profits or both, or (2) pay a tax thereon.

R. "Employee" means any person who renders services to another for a financial consideration or its equivalent, under an express or implied contract, and who is under the control and direction of the latter, and shall include temporary, provisional, casual, or part-time employment.

S. Hereinafter, when the word "Approving Subdivision" is used, it is to be construed as meaning a political subdivision approving these regulations.

T. "Political Subdivision" means the duly constituted authorities of Cities of the 2nd Class, Cities of the 2nd Class A, Cities of the 3rd Class, boroughs, towns, townships, townships of the 1st Class, School Districts of the 2nd Class, School Districts of the 3rd Class and School Districts of the 4th Class, as prescribed by laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.


SECTION 102. EXCLUSIONS FROM EARNINGS

The following payments or benefits received by an individual shall not be subject to the tax:

A. "Old-Age Benefits, Retirement Pay and Pensions." Periodical payments, commonly recognized as old-age, retirement or pension payments, made to persons retired from service after reaching a specific age or after a stated period of employment.

B. "Sick or Disability Benefits." Periodical payments received by an individual under a sickness or disability insurance plan are not taxable. Where, however, an employee receives regular salary from his employer during a period of sickness or disability, by virtue of his contract of employment, such compensation shall be fully taxed.

C. "Benefits Arising Under Workmen's Compensation Acts, Occupational Disease Acts, and Similar Legislation." Compensation received by employees under the provisions of workmen's compensation acts, occupational disease acts, or similar legislation together with any amount received as damages by suit or agreement on account of any injury or disease, is not taxable.

D. "Public Assistance of or Unemployment Compensation Payments." Payments made under any public assistance or unemployment compensation legislation are not taxable.

E. "Active Military Service Pay." Compensation paid by the United States to any person for active service in the armed forces of the United States is not taxable.

F. "Bonuses Paid by United States, Pennsylvania, or Any Other State, for Active Military Service." Any Bonus or additional compensation paid to a person by the United States, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or by any other State, for active service in the armed forces of the United States, is not taxable.

G. "Death Benefits." Where an employer makes death benefit payments to the beneficiary of an employee or to his estate, whether payable in a lump sum or otherwise, such payments are not taxable.

H. "Proceeds of Life Insurance Policies." Proceeds of life insurance policies payable by reason of the death of an insured to his estate or to a beneficiary are not taxable.

I. "Gifts and Bequests." Cash or property received as a gift or under a will or under statutes of descent and distribution is not taxable.

J. "Interest Received." All forms of interest, e.g., on obligation of the United States or its possessions, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any political subdivision thereof, or on bank or postal savings accounts, mortgages, or loans, received by an individual, are not taxable. However, where a person is engaged in the business of lending money at interest, e.g., loan or finance companies or private bankers, the net profits of such business are taxable.

K. "Board and Lodging to Employees for Convenience of Employer." The value of meals and lodging furnished to domestics or other employees by the employer for the latter's convenience is not considered earned income and is not taxable.

L. "Income from Stocks, Trusts and Rentals of Dwellings Owned by Individuals not Licensed (or conducting a business) as Realtors by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." The income from these items is not taxable under present law in the State of Pennsylvania.

M. "Capital Gains and Losses." Capital gains and losses shall not be included in computing taxable net earnings. These include such capital gains and losses as arise from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of depreciable business property, and real property, used in the taxpayer's trade or business.


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