Pennsylvania Opens 54-Day Tax Amnesty Window
by KYW's Tony Romeo
Governor Rendell says the clock has started running on a 54-day amnesty program for individuals and businesses that are delinquent on Pennsylvania tax payments.
Rendell (above) says that by the time the program ends on June 18th, he believes Pennsylvania can collect $190 million in overdue taxes under the first state tax amnesty program conducted in 14 years.
But he emphatically wants people who pay their taxes on time to know that people who take advantage of the amnesty program are not getting off entirely scot free:
“(We) offered them a chance to have the statutory penalties waived and have the interest that’s accrued on their tax delinquency cut in half. But no one will pay less. Everyone will pay more, even under this amnesty program, than they would have if they had paid their taxes on time.”
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