{"id":210475,"date":"2026-06-04T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210475\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:18:08","slug":"philly-city-council-to-resume-talks-on-proposed-rideshare-tax-city-budget-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210475\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly City Council to resume talks on proposed rideshare tax, city budget \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia City Council has until the end of this month to approve a budget for the city and, on Thursday, councilmembers are expected to resume discussion on some sticking points in the mayor’s proposal — most notably, new taxes, like a plan to add a tax to rideshare trips, a tax on certain deliveries and an effort to create a new hotel tax.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Mayor Cherelle Parker unveiled a nearly $7 billion budget plan<\/a> for the city that included new taxes including: <\/p>\n

A new tax on rideshare trips intended to raise funding for the city’s school system<\/p>\n

A new retail delivery tax on certain goods that would be intended to help the city afford a pothole repair squad<\/p>\n

A new hotel tax and an increase on short term rentals intended to generate revenue to be used on homelessness prevention initiatives<\/p>\n

But, ahead of Thursday’s meeting, there was no indication that there were enough votes to see any of these three efforts passed in council. <\/p>\n

The rideshare plan has been heavily debated<\/a> and amended since it was initially proposed and, according to Philadelphia City councilmember-at-large Jim Harrity, he won’t support the plan because his constituents can’t handle a new tax.<\/p>\n

“I live in Kensington. I live with people that cannot afford the dollar,” he said. “I get it. It’s a dollar. But, for my people, for my neighbors, it’s not just a dollar. That’s something else.”<\/p>\n

Ahead of Thursday’s meeting, education advocates met with councilmembers to call for $75 million in new funding for the city’s schools, more than the $50 million that Parker’s $1 tax on rideshare trips could generate.<\/p>\n

Also, after negotiations went late into the evening on Wednesday, officials weren’t expected to take up a vote on the proposal for a new hotel and rental tax on Thursday — which has been reduced<\/a> from Parker’s originally proposed 2% tax on hotel stays to just .6%, while adding a new 6% increase on taxes for short term rentals, like an AirBnB stay. <\/p>\n

Notations are ongoing as councilmembers have said they want to support new funding for these initiatives — especially to help support the city’s public schools, but aren’t sure if new taxes are the best way to get that done. <\/p>\n

City Council was set to begin meeting at 9 a.m. on Thursday. <\/p>\n

NBC10 plans to monitor the meeting and will provide updates as they become available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia City Council has until the end of this month to approve a budget for the city and,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,5648,71,70],"class_list":["post-210475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-city-council","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210475","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=210475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}