Local Income Tax Laws in PA

What is the liability of a person to pay local income taxes if a bill has been requested but never sent?

[abezon]

Your liability is to file the return. The locality has no duty to do your tax return for you. They will only send you a bill if it looks like you owe money.

I believe H&R Block will do the local return for about $20. Call & find out.

[Mark_in_PA]

Actually last year I was in a meeting in the town hall where I lived in PA and they mentioned that, according to the local laws in the township, the township still has a right to receive tax money, even if the tax payer never received the bill. I personally was shocked, but I read the rules and they do state something to the effect “non-receipt of the invoice does not relinquish responsibility for payment”… of course the rules were written on the back of the tax bill, but what did you expect?

I think that the basic protection is that the local government should not be holding the bag if the mail does not g through, or if a person does not leave a forward address. I am not sure if this is the case in any or all of the PA local taxiing authorities. I was in Northampton County.

-Mark