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A Resolution of the Council of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, made pursuant to the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act (“LERTA”), Pa. Stat. Ann. tit. 72, § 4722 et seq. (1995), as amended, providing for: a program of temporary exemption from increases in Allegheny County Real Property Taxes, for specified time periods, resulting from improvements made by an owner of property located within the Fourth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, generally known as the Central Oakland neighborhood, previously determined to be a deteriorated area; establishing a schedule for exempting increases in Allegheny County property taxes resulting from such improvements; and prescribing the requirements and procedures by which an owner of property located within the deteriorated area can secure the temporary exemption resulting from such improvements.
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Whereas, Pennsylvania’s Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act, Pa. Stat. Ann. tit. 72, § 4722 et seq., (1995), as amended, (hereinafter referred to as “LERTA”) authorizes local taxing authorities to enact a program whereby any increases in the assessed valuation of real property for the assessment and levying of real property taxes that is attributable to improvements made by the owner of an industrial, commercial, and other business property located within the geographic confines of a local taxing authority area determined to be deteriorating can be temporarily exempted based upon a schedule establishing the portion of the assessed valuation of the improvements to be exempted within a particular year after the improvements have been made; and
Whereas, on December 13, 2011, the City of Pittsburgh’s Council enacted an ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two Fiscal, Article IX Property Taxes, Chapter 267, Exemptions for Industrial and Commercial Improvements, Section 267.03 Exemption Schedule, by adding a new section (e) Local Economic...
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