{"id":180629,"date":"2026-04-30T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180629\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:34:08","slug":"pennsylvania-justices-back-state-schools-tax-immunity-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180629\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Justices Back State School\u2019s Tax Immunity Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A state university is immune from a borough\u2019s stormwater charge because it\u2019s a tax, not a fee for service, a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>West Chester <a data-terminal-id=\"RY2BYXDWRGG0\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/pennsylvania-town-backers-urge-high-court-to-flip-ruling-on-fee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a> the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that the levy is a tax West Chester University doesn\u2019t have to pay because it\u2019s a government entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere a municipality is duty bound to provide a service for the public benefit and in the absence of a voluntary, contractual relationship between itself and those receiving the service, the associated charge is a tax,\u201d Justice P. Kevin Brobson wrote for the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A state university is immune from a borough\u2019s stormwater charge because it\u2019s a tax, not a fee for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80587,60844,28,30,29,80588,58921,21696],"class_list":["post-180629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-environmental-tax","tag-jurisdiction","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sovereign-immunity","tag-state-tax","tag-stormwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}