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Shouldn't a township would know that? ...
Anyway, small consolation for the many restaurants, developers and other businesses on the Bucks Co. list. Among them was massage therapist Terry Tosh, in Quakertown, who is listed as owing $130,188 for her business owned with husband Robert Tosh. Tosh told PhillyInc that their Pennsylania Institute of Massage Therapy Inc. will dutifully pay up, although she said the amount was now lower. Still, Tosh took the occasion to blast local tax rules and her lack of voting power over the politicians who set them. Tosh complained that she gets no say over Quakertown tax rates as a Quakertown business-owner because she, personally, lives in a different county and cannot vote the bums out.
"The property taxes are atrocious. We pay more in taxes than most people make in a year. Whenever taxes go up, the township targets businesses as if they have all the money. They don't. ... It's getting harder and harder for business owners to pay. And another thing that drives me crazy is that we own this property, but we can’t vote here. Isn't that taxation without representation? You can’t vote them out because you don't live there. ... They should just have a ballot for property owners."
OK. Cannot imagine what the Framers would say about that. By the way, in case you were thinking this is another case of a small business teetering on the brink of bankruptcy because of onerous taxes, think again. Tosh said "business is doing really well. Things are picking up."
