C - U - T - THE - B - P - T -- Let’s Grow Jobs In This City

HAPPY TAX DAY!  Oops...for a second, I forgot this is Philadelphia so it is always an unhappy tax day.  As we know all too well, compared to other cities and surrounding competitor jurisdictions, Philadelphia taxes too much, taxes the wrong stuff, and taxes unfairly.  If we were to make Philadelphia taxes more fair and less burdensome, we could improve efforts to attract and retain jobs and neighbors.

The voter-established Tax Reform Commission recommended that the city...

• Dramatically reduce the Wage Tax (and legislation is already in place to make that tax more of a molehill than a mountain),
• Phase out the job-killing Business Privilege Tax (and legislation to end this tax as we know it is currently pending before City Council), and
• Make real estate taxation fair and understandable (and it looks like it will take a lawsuit to compel the city to make this necessary change).

...and we are making progress.  The next major change could come soon as City Council is considering legislation to eliminate the Gross Receipts Portion of the j-kBPT and initiate the first-ever cuts to the Net Incompe Portion of the j-kBPT.

So let's change our tune and make this a HAPPY TAX DAY.  Philadelphia is singing a new song and it is in the key of Tax Reform:

C-U-T-THE-B-P-T

(oo) What you tax
(oo) Baby I hate it!
(oo) How you tax
(oo) Just can’t debate it!
(oo) All your taxin’
(oo) We need some good old tax reform. (just a little bit)
Hey baby (just a little bit)
some tax reform. (just a little bit)
Mister (just a little bit)

It ain’t a privilege to do my business.
Taxes are just too high (oo)
And where’s the fairness? (oo)
All I’m askin’ (oo)
Is for a little reform, City Council. (just a little bit)
Baby. (just a little bit)
Some tax reform (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)



Your taxes are taking all of my money.
But I’m the one creatin’ jobs, honey.
I need to keep some profits —
Need tax reform. (just a, just a, just a, just a)
Yeah baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)
Need tax reform. (just a little bit)
Yeah. (just a little bit)




Ooo, your taxes (oo)
Take all my money. (oo)
And guess what? (oo)
That’s not so funny. (oo)
All I want you to do (oo) for me
Is give me some good old tax reform.
(re, re, re, re)
Hey baby.
(re, re, re, re)


Whip it to me.
(reform, just a little bit)
Some tax reform, now. (just a little bit)

C - U - T - THE - B - P - T
Let’s grow jobs in this city

C - U - T - THE - B - P - T
No more BPT

Oh. (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)
A little reform. (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)
Whoa, baby. (just a little bit)
A little reform (just a little bit)




I said I get tired. (just a little bit)
But I keep on tryin’. (just a little bit)
You’re taxin’ me to death. (just a little bit)
And I ain’t lyin’ (just a little bit)
You better give me reform. (re, re, re, re)
Give me some reform. (re, re, re, re)
Or you might turn ‘round (reform, just a little bit)
And find out I’m gone.

(just a little bit)
I said I got to have it. 
(just a little bit)
A little reform.
(just a little bit)
I got to have it. 
(just a little bit)
A little reform.
(just a little bit)