HARRISBURG \u2013\u00a0Pennsylvania House Republican Leader Jesse Topper (R-Bedford\/Fulton) said Monday that House Republicans have positioned legislation that includes the largest tax cut in the history of Pennsylvania with the passage of House Bill 2224. The bill would eliminate the near 6% gross receipts tax on utility bills, cutting taxes on Pennsylvania\u2019s families by $1.7 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cHouse Republicans have been leading on affordability measures based in tax cuts that can immediately slash the bills paid by Pennsylvanians and put more money in the pockets of our working families,\u201d Topper said. \u201cOur tax cut proposal, included in House Bill 2224, will eliminate a significant tax paid by Pennsylvanians for using the utility services they rely on in nearly every aspect of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Topper noted affordability through tax elimination has been a cornerstone of the House Republican Caucus\u2019 message on affordability throughout the current legislative session.<\/p>\n
\u201cHouse Republicans inherently believe Pennsylvanians are better off when they have more of their own money to spend and the government gets out of their way in how they can spend it,\u201d Topper said. \u201cThe elimination of the gross receipts tax would save every Pennsylvania family more of their hard-earned money and make a huge difference to the many Pennsylvanians looking for government\u2019s help in making their lives a little easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
House Bill 2224 passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Monday by a unanimous vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG \u2013\u00a0Pennsylvania House Republican Leader Jesse Topper (R-Bedford\/Fulton) said Monday that House Republicans have positioned legislation that includes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-225877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225877","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=225877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}