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‘Blogger tax:’ bill creating business privilege license exemption for ‘hobbies’ faces City Council vote [VIDEO]
Mike Lyons, who runs the blog West Philly Local, sits on a bench at Locust and 40th streets.
The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
Mike Lyons and his wife run West Philly Local, a blog that covers news in West Philadelphia.
His site has been up for just three months and gets a modest 800 to 900 unique visitors a day. Although Lyons hopes to monetize the site in the future, it has yet to make any profit.
For bloggers like Lyons, the year-long dispute concerning the city’s so-called ‘blogger tax’ has caused a great deal of confusion.
But new legislation introduced by Councilman Bill Green could keep Lyons and other hobbyists, including bloggers, from being required to apply and pay for a city business privilege license.
‘Global Water Industry Honor Roll’ features two Philly companies: Links
- Navy, economic development groups sign pact [PhillyBurbs.com] — “The U.S. Navy has formed a partnership with three business development groups to foster collaboration with small businesses, educational institutions and nonprofit groups and increase energy-related developments at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.”
- Q&A with Mark Alan Hughes [Flying Kite] The Penn State Professor leading the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster, also located at the Navy Yard
- Two Philly Firms Named to Global Water Industry Honor Roll [Keystone Edge] — BlackGold Biofuels and NovaThermal Energy were named to the Top 50 Water Companies list
- ‘Blogger tax’ goes before council [Metro] — We’ll have more details next week
- Philadelphia Water Department to adopt water infrastructure capital planning software [Water World]
- Philadelphia’s Greatest And Most Anticipated Food Website Coming Soon [Phoodie] — “Tacodelphia“
- Many could be interested in Cubist [Business Journal]
Comcast asks FCC to keep Hulu info secret: Roundup
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- Comcast to FCC: Keep Hulu info secret [Politico] — “According to a letter placed in the commission’s public file on Wednesday, the company contends that a document it will soon file with the FCC detailing its deal with the Internet site that shows NBC and other network programming is too sensitive for the public to see.”
- Comcast Has Been To My House 12 Times, Still No Cable [Consumerist]
- Comcast tops in adding broadband subs [Fierce Cable] — “…Comcast more than doubled its nearest competitor, AT&T, by adding one million net broadband customers over the course of the last year.”
- Comcast Begins Effort to Launch 10 Independent Networks [Comcast blog] — A call to support 10 ethnic and racially diverse stations
- 5 Ways GE Plays the Tax Game [ProPublica] — How the deal with Comcast for NBC affects
Councilman Jim Kenney on tax policy amid a recession
Councilman Jim Kenney was a staunch opponent of the city tax reform proposal from Councilman Bill Green and Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez.
Later this month, revised plans from Green and Sanchez are expected, ahead of Mayor Nutter’s budget address. So, in chatting with Councilman Kenney in February, we brought up his issues with the tax proposal. Below, with light editing for length and clarity, are his thoughts:
Where did you stand on the Green-Sanchez tax legislation?
I was not in favor of that legislation, and I thought it was dangerous how they wanted to reorganize and revamp the business privilege tax in the big picture of it.
Pittsburgh is the best place to live in the U.S. and other Links
- It’s official: Pittsburgh is best place to live in U.S. (it even beats Honolulu) [Daily Mail] — Philly isn’t even in the Top 10 of U.S. cities, being beaten by D.C., Chicago, Atlanta and, yes, Detroit.
- Changing Skyline: What does GlaxoSmithKline’s move to Navy Yard mean for downtown? [Inquirer]
- Chamber declines to support legislation calling for jobs commission [Chamber blog] — Just lower the damn business privilege taxes, they say.
- Pa. to invest in Aker Philadelphia Shipyard [Philadelphia Business Journal]
- How Philly is Taking the Lead on the City Planning-Public Health Connection [Keystone Edge]
- All About Patents [Hive 76]
- Nutter Open To Casino On Market Street East [Philly Clout: Daily News] And Plan Philly says “Attorney says city’s large numbers of Asians, Slavs are big reason it could handle two casinos.”
- Penn raising tuition 3.9% [Philadelphia Business Journal] — “The University of Pennsylvania will increase tuition 3.9 percent and expand its financial-aid budget by $10.7 million, or 7.7 percent, to $161 million in the 2011-2012 school year.”
City Controller: 80% Non-Compliance with Sales Tax Laws; Philly Car Share owes $260k
A report claims to show the city’s top state sales tax delinquents, including $258,287 from Philly Car Share.
Philly business privilege tax reform legislation working group: discussing ‘contours of a proposal’ in March
Councilman Bill Green, with Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez to the left. Photo courtesy WHYY.
A joint Philadelphia City Council and Nutter administration working group is examining details on business privilege tax reform, says City Councilman Bill Green.
“[We are working] to achieve the underlying policy goals of the BPT reform legislation, which includ[es] helping small businesses, encouraging job creation, closing tax loopholes and making Philadelphia an attractive location for businesses to locate, expand, and stay,” Green tells Technically Philly.
The working group is charged with taking elements of City Council Bill 100635, primarily sponsored by Green and City Councilwoman Maria Quinones Sanchez, and creating a new version more palatable to a big business community that labeled the legislation ‘ill-timed’ in recent council testimony.
YIP business panel discussion: Public schools and growing our startup community will save Philadelphia
Business and Entrepreneurship panel on Sept. 27, 2010, as part of the Young Involved Philadelphia's State of Young Philly. From left: David Calabrese, an investment and market strategy executive; Kevin Dow, the acting Chief Operating Officer of the city's Commerce Department; Bernie Dagenais, the former editor of the Philadelphia Business Journal; Ahsan Nasratullah, the founder and president of real-estate finance and brokerage firm JNA Capital and Pat Gillespie, the business manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Union
The perception and practice of Philadelphia public schools and the depth and widespread recognition for the city’s startup communities are two issues that need the most addressing to develop the future of entrepreneurship here, according to a panel and breakout group discussion held Monday night by Young Involved Philadelphia.
The Business and Entrepreneurship night, which drew more than 50 young Philadelphians and a handful of prominent members of the city’s business community, was in conjunction with Young Involved Philadelphia’s two-week State of Young Philly series.
“We’re looking for ideas that we can walk out of here tonight and do something about,” said Bernie Dagenais, the former editor of the Philadelphia Business Journal who last month became president of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce.
[Full Disclosure: Technically Philly was a sponsor of and active in last night's event. YIP is also a supporting organization for next Wednesday's Switch Philly business demo event. TP will also be present at Friday's series showcase.]
Links: More Naval Yard development, the science of football and More
DEFINITE READS
- City, bloggers talk taxes over drinks [Inquirer] — Among the dozen or so on hand to talk about the recent blowup around business licensing was Indy Hall co-founder Geoff DiMasi.
- Data center opens at Philadelphia Navy Yard [Philadelphia Business Journal] The making of the Technology Park deal [PBJ] — The data center deal shouldn’t be confused with the energy innovation hub due for the Naval Yard too.
- How Philadelphia’s Navy Yard will become mini-city of energy innovation [Inquirer]
- Gaining on death, cooling therapy catches on slowly [Reuters] — The University of Pennsylvania is leading the trend in “therapeutic hypothermia” to battle the effects of cardiac arrest.
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