Pa's "most wanted" tax scofflaw list now online
Ok, tax scofflaws, you had your chance to pay up under the amnesty program, now the Commonwealth is outing you.
Pa's "most wanted" tax scofflaw list now online
Ok, tax scofflaws, you had your chance to pay up under the amnesty program, now the Commonwealth is outing you.
For the first time, the state is posting a complete list of businesses and individuals that owe a total of $233 million in taxes. The site went live this morning with 39,000 offenders listed.
Topping the list is Naperville-Il.-based Unitel with $4.1 million in sales and employee taxes owed, followed by Lees Industries of Philadelphia with $3.1 million.
The biggest individual debtor listed is Thomas J. Mylotte of Malvern, who owes $1.7 million in back taxes.
Other notable Philly listings include J. Crew, with a bill for $1.2 million, Bookinders Restaurant which owes $113,000 in sales/employee taxes and Tenet Health Systems/St. Christopher's Hospital which owes $573,000 in sales/employee taxes.
The list includes those that owe personal income, sales/employer, corporate, inheritance, real estate transfer and others.
State officials say they hope by shaming the scofflaws they will pay up as has been the case in other states.
"We hope by putting pressure on those who owe taxes, it will encourage people to come forward," said Stephanie Weyant, spokeswoman for the Revenue Department
The Pennsylvania tax delinquent list first debuted in April 2006. The expanded tax delinquent list includes more than 10 times the number of tax delinquents offered in previous versions. The list previously detailed only employer withholding and sales tax liabilities, but the new list includes information about all state tax liens filed since July 2009. The revised list will be updated monthly, rather than quarterly, to include newly filed liens and remove satisfied liens.
Anyone appearing on the list should call the Revenue Department at 717-783-3000 to make payment arrangements.
The complete tax delinquent list is available at www.revenue.state.pa.us, under the “Hot Topics” tab on the home page.
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Philly Car Share owes the following per the Pennsylvania Department of revenue for state/use taxes: 10/20/09 $258,287.51 10/28/09 $ 849.09 4/19/10 $ 454.78 3/24/10 $ 43,656.56 12/11/09 $ 48,986.82 Total = $352,234.76 The question is, can Philly Car Share pay for this (are they currently paying for this) or will it force them out of business in the near future? What will than happen to all the prepaid yearly dues and trip payments owed to the members if they go out of business? The other question is, who at Philly Car Share is responsible for collecting this tax from the members and than refusing to pay the state for the tax collected?— Expert Answer- Why is the State of PA allowed to release a list that can't be sorted? Sorting casts a wider net so trends appear rather than searching for a specific name (esp when mispelled).— QuietOne402
- Corporations that owe governmental units back taxes should be nationalized and their executives required to forfeit all personal assets. Now that's how you end tax delinquency!— Delaware Jim
Tony S: Tenet ripped the American taxpayers off for about $400 BILLION with fraudulent billings to Medicare, according the US Government. It had to pay back about $1.0 Billion, tax deductible. Do the math genius. Wouldn't you take that payoff?— The Monk- Wokerholic: Look it up about Jeb Bush. He's been paid at least $1.0M in salary and stock options since he was named Director. Bob Kerrey is just waiting to exercise them. The CEO for Tenet, Trevor Fetter made about $9.0 M last year, including stock options. The disgraced former CEO Jeffrey Barbakow was THE highets paid CEO in America in 2002. That man should be in prison with Mumia yet he's living in Santa Barbara with the life of Riley!— The Monk
Comment removed.- So, Phillycarshare owes a quarter-million, eh?— MaggieL
- Valley Twin: Most PDF viewers will let you search for a name or company.— MaggieL
- Leave it to Harrisburg to publish the list only in PDF format so you can't sort it by name. It's kind of difficult for the city (or anyone really) to cross check when you have to go through 1400+ pages to look for a name or company— Valley Twin
- Hey!!! Where is the New Jersey list?? Q— quigly46
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- Hey all who was standing outside 4th and syder ave. the other day HERE ARE THE ONES WHO TO BLAME NOT CITY HALL But insomeway they are to blame by not collecting the taxes— abbe
- The Monk says: "First this compnay rips off America for hundreds of billions, then they sell off about fifty hospitals nationally to pay the feds a $1.0 Billion fine for Medicare fraud...now this." Well, I guess that 1.0 Billion dollar fine was useless & pointless, huh?— tonyS
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- Lets hope the City Controller's office cross checks this list of tax deadbeats with the vendor lists of who is owed BY the city for goods and services and that they do an offset or withhold payment until the taxes are current.— TheGuyfromPhilly
- Directors get tens of thousands, usually. Executives are the ones who get millions. Now some company insiders do business with the company but unless you have evidence for it, you shouldn't go around saying directors take millions. I'm not condoning it, but just setting the record straight.— workerholic
- ^ I agree MONK ... it always boggles my mind to see how some of these tax bills can go that delinquent. Especially when it's a large entity like Tenet. It's like is anyone at the dept of revenue doing their jobs? How can you allow these kinds of delinquencies. They should let the Phila. Parking authority do their collections in the 1st place ( They get their $)— Kennedy
- I guess my question has to be, how the hell can an individual rack up 1.7 MILLION Dollars in unpaid taxes without having their assets sold at Sheriff's Sale?????— Mike S.
- How the hell does Tenet Health Systems get away with owing $573K in taxes??? First this compnay rips off America for hundreds of billions, then they sell off about fifty hospitals nationally to pay the feds a $1.0 Billion fine for Medicare fraud...now this. Tenet is one pig of a company...just ask Jeb Bush and Bob Kerrey who makes millions off Tenet as so-called "Directors".— The Monk
