Pennsylvania Senate plan overhauls property tax assessments
A comprehensive assessment reform package sets 100 percent market value for taxes, creates a State Tax Equalization Board for guidance and certification, and shifts assessment duties to county level. It limits revenue growth post change, requires building permits data, allows access to income reports, and routes appeal of county assessments to county common pleas courts.
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Senate Finance Committee
General Assembly
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Tax Equalization Board
State Department of Community Affairs
Board For Fair and Equitable
Common Pleas
New family deductions and the capital support rule shift
The Treasury ruling now treats capital outlays like autos and TVs as support for dependents, possibly boosting deductions. It lets gifts count toward more-than-half support, affecting many scenarios from college students to elderly parents, with timing around year end changing eligibility and future tax strategy.
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Treasury
Robert
A Night of Mares and Other Wordy Gatherings
A quirky catalog of collective nouns for animals and people sprawls across this item, ending with a roster of political figures and a toll free line. The piece playfully surveys terms like a night of mares and a school of pencils, then lists United States senators, governors, representatives, and addresses in Pennsylvania and Washington. The tone is light and editorial, weaving wordplay with a political contact block.
The Old Man at the Door and a Dying Dream
An elderly man with chronic illness lies in a hospital bed and recalls a life of wealth and regret as a nurse and doctor approach. He dreams of being a ten year old boy, wakes, and dies after a final sigh. A fragment from a 1977 Wyng Festuites Synageate, Inc source.
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I.V
Wilkinson
Veterans Meet Former SS Troops at German Graveyard
US Army band played as veterans of the 70th Division laid wreaths on SS graves near Bucholz Germany on September 26. A US chaplain offered an invocation amid a reunion also attended by three SS Sixth Mountain Hunter Division members and 80 veterans from the Trailblazers. The event drew mixed reactions, with high ranking officers noting it was mainly talk about past battles. A Pentagon spokesman said the participation of the band and chaplain was the extent of official involvement.
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Germany
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George Blanchard
Europe
Theodore Mataxis
Mataxis
Valley Forge Military Academy
Wayne
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