In addition, some local bodies assess a wage tax on personal income.

IT is expected to add $3.4 million annually in property and wage taxes to the city.

He is also considering a wage tax only for commuters.

His campaign focused on eliminating the province's 2% wage tax.

All of this would make the drive for a wage tax laughable, if only it were a joke.

Not all were against the wage tax, however.

A number of varieties are known to exist, and they were replaced by wages tax stamps in 1933.

"Income tax comes after all the other wage taxes.

A state that once attracted wealthy people because it had no wage tax has imposed one for the first time to balance its budget.

Revenue from the nonresident wage tax which is not available to cities unless they have Act 47 status.

Another bill was to allow the exemption of suburbanites from the Philadelphia wage tax.

They, too, now confront the nasty question of what, if anything, to put in place of the wage tax.

The city also wants to collect money from a a wage tax on Philadelphia residents who work outside the city.

The city's main revenue sources include a wage tax for residents, a sales tax and property taxes.

The personal income tax would be transformed into a wage tax with absolutely no deductions.

He ran as a supporter of coalition government, private school vouchers and deeper cuts in the city's wage tax.

The wage tax, he said, would allow other taxes to be lowered - especially those paid by business - to stimulate the state's flagging economy.

Beneficiaries contend that they are getting back only what they invested in wage taxes.

The first was over unpaid wage taxes in Pennsylvania; the charge was dropped.

She boasted about lowering the city's wage tax just before her last election, and vowed not to raise taxes this year no matter what happens.

The changes he favors include introducing a progressive wage tax and reducing the 8 percent sales tax.

Most of the new buildings are also in designated urban enterprise zones, where tenants pay no sales or wage taxes.

Despite the political issues involved with Medicare reform, it is inevitable that there will be increases in wage taxes to accommodate the influx.

Some attacked the alternative budget, which would replace the wage tax with a higher sales tax and deeper spending cuts.

The city would be able to offset the loss of wage tax revenue with a newly enacted 1 percent sales tax.