Harrispurg, Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh is called Gok tax, On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that it fulfills a 3 % tax on the income gained by visiting athletes and performance artists in the stadiums funded by the public sector, and a discrimination against non -residents.
The city’s residents who play or pay a 1 % tax in the stadiums on income, as well as a tax in the educational area by 2 %. The city argued that the net impact of the tax plan was the same. However, the Supreme Court, such as the lower courts that heard the case for the first time, opposed, noting that non -resident workers are not subject to school tax.
“The city does not provide concrete reasons that would justify the imposition of taxes on non -resident athletes and artists than resident athletes and artists.” The decision was unanimous, despite the division of judges in their logic.
It is expected that the ruling, which has been rejected by the minimum courts in the case, is expected to cost millions of city in the missing revenues. A spokesman for the mayor’s spokeswoman said the city raised $ 2.6 million in the tax so far in 2025.
“This decision will increase the burden of the cost of the city’s basic services to our residents, while reducing the responsibility of professional artists and athletes to contribute to covering the large costs associated with large public occasions,” Olga George, a spokeswoman for mayor Ed Jenny, said in an email.
However, the judges indicated that legislators in the state authorized the tax in the early first decade of the twentieth century by not compensating the cost of building the stadium, but rather strengthening tense financial affairs in the city.
Among the prosecutors in Pittsburgh Bingoin Scott Wilson. Kyle Palmi, a resident of New York Island; Former baseball player Jeff Francor; And the societies of players in the National League, the National Football League and the Bibli, the main league.