Supervisors Approve Contract With New Local Services Tax Collector
Newtown Township Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to hire Keystone Collections as their local services tax collector on Dec. 5.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Newtown Township supervisors approved, 3-0, Keystone Collections Group, of Downington, as their local services tax collector (LST), at a budget meeting last Wednesday. Supervisors Vice Chairman Dr. Ross Lambert and Supervisor George Wood were absent from the meeting. According to township officials, Keystone Collections will charge 1.57 percent of the township's net collections annually in the three-year contract. The contract has an automatic renewal after three years are up. However, Township Solicitor Rich Sokorai stated that a bond will be included in the contract. "I want a bond in there," said Sokorai. "If it gets breached, I want us to be able to get out of it." The township has been currently using Berkheimer …
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Patti Wilson
10:20 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
These Supervisors, in my view, and as indicated by them actually made the decision to once again hire the tax collector that the County has also hired. Until I asked at the meeting, they all did not even know the length of the contract. I don't think they made the decision based on the best firm to collect local services tax. It is not even clear as the specifics of each of the proposals was not … more ›