PA Counties Say Keep Impact Fee, Even if There’s a Severance Tax

The organization that represents county governments in Pennsylvania, the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP), has a message for Gov. Wolf and state legislators: Even if you pass a severance tax, keep the impact fee in place. It has, over the past five years, become critically important for all counties across the state--not just counties where drilling takes place (those "impacted"). Not only do counties want to maintain the impact fee in general, they specifically want to keep it as it is currently structured--how much drillers are taxed and how the revenue is split. The message loud and clear coming from CCAP: don't screw with the impact fee, even if you want to (boneheadedly) add a severance tax...

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