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Finance and Tax Information
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Finance Director: Vincent G. Yevins
Phone: 412.884.0505, Ext. 323
Email: vyevins@whitehallboro.org
Earned Income Tax Collector: Berkheimer Associates
Phone: 412-881-3075
Property Tax Collector: Kelly Sgattoni
100 Borough Park Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
Phone: 412-316-6215
E-mail: ksgattoni@bwschools.net
Earned Income Tax Collection Changes Start January 1, 2012
Act 32, signed into law in 2008, takes effect January 1, 2012. Act 32 completely restructures the withholding, reporting and collection of local earned income taxes (EIT) in Pennsylvania.
The Act reduced the number of tax collectors in Pennsylvania from 560 to 69, and established four Tax collection Districts (TCD) in Allegheny County. Whitehall Borough and the Baldwin-Whitehall School District are in the Southwest Allegheny County TCD. Councilman Robert J. McKown is the representative on the TCD board for Whitehall Borough.
The TCD has designated Jordan Tax Service, Inc. as the collector of EIT for the Southwest District.
If you are an EMPLOYEE, you will be asked by your employer to complete the Local Earned Income Tax Residency Certification Form. The form is easy to complete, and will ask you to certify which municipality in which you reside.
Please note that the total Resident EIT Rate is 1.5% and the PSD code for Whitehall is 730104. Once you have completed the form, you will have fulfilled your obligation under the law. Your employer will withhold your local EIT and remit it to Jordan, who in turn will remit it to your municipality and school district.
If you are an EMPLOYER, you will be required to withhold EIT for all employees, and remit those funds to the various TCDs. You will also be subject to applicable reporting requirements as adopted by the TCD.
For more information about Act 32 and it’s requirements you can visit www.jordantax.com/act32 or the state website at www.newPA.com.
The Borough levies a 1.00% Earned Income Tax on personal income and the Baldwin Whitehall School district levies an additional .5% Earned Income Tax for a combined total of 1.5%, including but not necessarily limited to: salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, incentive payments, fees, tips and other compensation received by a person for services rendered. Taxpayers whose employer fails to withhold the earned income tax, are required to submit a quarterly tax return and estimated tax on or before April 30, July 31 and October 31 of the CALENDAR YEAR, and on or before January 31 of the SUCCEEDING YEAR. All residents subject to either tax must submit a final return, no later than April 15th of the SUCCEEDING YEAR.
The Borough levies a 1.00% tax on the net profits of a business, except corporations, domiciled in the Borough. Net profit taxes are subject to collection on a quarterly basis as described above.
Earned income taxes and net profits taxes are collected by, and should be paid to:
Berkheimer Associates
Wallace Building
Room 109
41 Macek Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15227
Phone: 412-881-3075
Download Earned Income Tax Form
The Borough levies a real estate tax on all real property at the rate of 5.5 mills on each thousand dollars of assessed valuation. Real estate tax notices are issued on February 1st of each year. Taxpayers subject to this tax may take a 2.00% discount off the face amount of the tax by paying the amount due in full within the two-month discount period (February 1 – March 31). Taxes remaining unpaid on June 1 or later each year are subject to a penalty of 10.00% of the tax amount.
Real estate taxes are collected by, and should be paid to:
Tax Collector - Kelly Sgattoni
100 Borough Park Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
Phone: 412-316-6215
E-mail:ksgattoni@bwschools.net
There are three ways that you, as a County resident, can acquire PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.
Click on the following links for complete information and downloadable forms.
Act 77 is the Senior Citizen Tax Relief Program
http://www.alleghenycounty.us/treasure/act77.aspx
Act 50 is the Homestead/Farmstead Act:
http://www.alleghenycounty.us/opa/act50frm.aspx
The Pennsylvania Property Tax or Rent Rebate Program:
http://www.revenue.state.pa.us/ptrr/site/default.asp
The Borough has enacted a $47.00 Local Services Tax for each person engaged in employment within the Borough.
The Baldwin-Whitehall School District has enacted a $5.00 Local Services Tax, making the total tax $52.00.
The tax is not imposed on anyone whose total income during the tax year is less than $12,000.
The Borough levies a realty transfer tax in the amount of 3/4 of 1.00% (.75%) of the value of the real estate sold or transferred, subject to certain limitations.
The Borough issues sewer bills quarterly through its billing agent, Berkheimer Outsourcing. Bills are generally issued on the 15th day of January, April, July and October. The 2010 sewage rate is $9.57 per thousand of gallons of water used. In addition, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) bills a Customer Service charge of $8.48 per bill.
The vast majority of customers are serviced by ALCOSAN, however, a few residents are serviced by the Pleasant Hills Sewer Authority. Billing rates are the same for customers of either authority.
Payments are due 30 days from the bill date. A late charge of 10.00% is assessed on late payments the first month, and one-half of one percent each month thereafter. Customers are subject to termination of service once an account is two quarters delinquent.
Checks should be made payable to: BOS-UTIL.
Questions regarding sewer bills should be directed to Berkheimer Outsourcing at:
Whitehall Borough Sewer
c/o BOS Dept. U
P.O. Box 910
Bangor, PA 18013-0910
Phone: 1-866-309-6939
E-mail: utlbilling@work2berk.com
If for some reason you do not have the bottom portion of your billing statement when remitting payment, please forward payment directly to Vincent G. Yevins, 100 Borough Park Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15236 for proper crediting.