Mayor Kenney on May 15 signed into law a bill amending the Philadelphia Realty Transfer Tax as it applies to sales of interests in real estate companies. Before July 1, 2017, if a real estate company that owned Philadelphia...more
Philadelphia just dramatically tightened its realty transfer tax rules to impose more realty transfer tax. Under the current Philadelphia and Pennsylvania realty transfer tax law, a real estate company owes realty transfer...more
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (DOR) recently issued Information Notice - Realty Transfer Tax 2014-01 (the Information Notice) delivering some good news and bad news about how the new law that became effective January...more