City Of Philadelphia Makes Up Bullshit Tax Claim, Sues Yuengling For $6.6 Million
Philly.com – Now, Dick Yuengling may be throwing back a few of his own brews after receiving a civil lawsuit from the city that claims his brewery, D.G. Yuengling and Son Inc., has failed to pay more than $6.6 million in city taxes, interest and penalty fees. How does a Pottsville-based beer company that doesn’t have a brewery or a plant in Philadelphia come to owe millions in business-income and -receipts taxes to the city? It’s not clear, because no one from the city would comment on the suit or explain even the basic foundation of the claims. The business-income and -receipts tax (BIRT), formerly known as the business-privilege tax (BPT), can be levied on any person or corporation that engages in taxable activity within the city, even if that business is not in the city. What the city constitutes as a taxable activity “is essentially a factual determination made on a case-by-case basis,” according to the regulations listed on the city’s website.
These are the types of stories that give the conservative media raging anger boners that only lots and lots of shouting can satisfy. $6.6 million based on some tax they kinda just made up and decided Yuengling needs to pay while refusing to divulge even the smallest bit of detail as to why? Shady-ass city being shady.
It’s a wonder who the Yuengling guys pissed off to make this sorta thing happen. Did Dick Yuengling leave a bloody hooker in Mayor Nutter’s beach house? Are the Yuengling trucks involved in the heroin trade and the company failed to pay the city their cut? So many possibilities.
Whatever it is doesn’t matter unless the price of Black & Tan goes up. Then we have a problem.
Yuengling is delicious.
Philly is BROKE as FUCK. Their blanket tax bullshit has delayed a property closing for me for two weeks now. Just throwing possible taxes on everyone and hoping they’ll blindly pay instead of doing the back tax work and proving you paid what you owe.
The insurance company model if you will.
I feel like penalizing one of the biggest businesses in your territory is probably not a real good look for a city losing money hand over fist. Everybody will want to come here now! Dumb ass Nutter.
i’ve been to the yueng brewery tour in pottsville. drank yueng’s all weekend in punxsutawney for groundhog day. philly better leave them alone!
Your true colors are showing. Fake-black Mo would have been like, “All’s I be drankin’ is Colt 45″ or some stereotypical line that only an upper-middle class black suburban kid would say to overcompensate for his guilt of not understanding his less-fortunate brethrens’ plight.
I know I sound like a broken record here, but can you write something funny mo? Nobody cares about your opinion.
I hope Dick Yuengling goes down to city hall, wipes his ass with the 6.6M and leaves it there. City gov of Philly is a joke
@rybo you nailed it. Moe this isn’t a blog for you to let us know your feelings on trivial bullshit.
A city run by fucking libs, let it fucking burn!
How do you skip the fact that his name is Dick Yuengling????
Let’s chill on the politics, fellas.
I wonder If it’s just a coincidence that all the broke states and broke cities are run by one party pro-union Democrats. Must be a coincidence, couldn’t be anything else.
Consider it a Philly Murder Tax
You spelled Hurricane wrong
philly sucks
Philly has its own payroll tax. WTF?
Really Mo, Black and Tans? Is that what black people drink if they get actual beer? Black and tan sucks balls compared to the original
great beer, terrible city.
They need to sell this in New England. I’m sick of driving to Albany to by a dozen cases at a time.
Didn’t have to scroll too much to find the misinformed republican of the page, there you are ClarenceWhorley! Yes because of Philly all of Pennsylvania is a poor state. LOL You’re really going to ignore/leave out the perpetually Democratic states that aren’t poor and full of white people. Like oh say Vermont or Connecticut or much of the east coast? Check the facts, the poorer states are down south where what do you know, Republicans reign supreme. I’m sorry but know matter how badly you want your delusions to be confirmed in reality, they’re not. Sigh, at least if you do pass on your genes my black kids will have some white people to look down on!