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WhenRobLoweRobsLowes t1_j6opz0l wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in If I already e-filed Fed&PA taxes, must I complete this "Local Earned Income Tax Return" from KEYSTONE collections group? by [deleted]

Because you pay a percentage of your income in taxes at federal, state, and local levels. Municipal / school taxes are the local level.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6orwj6 wrote

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ButtBlock t1_j6p5wh4 wrote

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. In my municipality, local earned income tax is completely separate and different from school taxes. Different computation, different basis, different collecting authority.

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MaybeADumbass t1_j6p0i9u wrote

> Sure, but "Local Earned Income Tax" is a specific thing, and that specific thing isn't municipal/school taxes.

Are you sure about that? The Earned Income Tax rate in Pittsburgh is 3%; 1% of that goes to the City, and 2% goes to the school district.

School taxes are based on property value AND earned income in the City and many other municipalities.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6p2mxq wrote

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MaybeADumbass t1_j6p4pjm wrote

> Sure, but "Local Earned Income Tax" is a specific thing, and that specific thing isn't municipal/school taxes.

Except that thing is only municipal and school (in some school districts) taxes. 0.5% of the 1.5% Local Earned Income Tax in Bellevue goes to the Northgate School District, and 1.0% goes to the municipality of Bellevue.

Plenty of people call them Municipal taxes because "municipal" just means relating to a city or town or its governing body. If you've never heard them called as such, maybe it's because your parents and/or teachers don't use the term?

> If you want to have a pedantic semantic argument, go be wrong somewhere else.

Ha!

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