So ... in case you haven't been following along, Philly is one of the biggest users of civil asset forfeiture in the country. They even go after your HOUSE if your kids commit a drug offense near it. And they win the **** houses!

Say hello to Philly's next abomination... jeopardy tax assessment. They claim you have an ENORMOUS (six figure!) tax liability. If you don't follow their maze of legal paperwork to prove yourself innocent, you will ultimately be guilty and have to pay the tax. Even if the Philly tax office admits they made it up and cannot prove you owe it directly in front of a judge.

Quote:With undisguised reluctance, Commonwealth Court has issued an order requiring a Philadelphia man to pay a $280,772 tax bill that he probably doesn't really owe.

In fact, city officials acknowledged in court that the tax bill they sent Nathan Lerner was a "jeopardy assessment" based on a fabrication.

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Philadelphia has a policy of sending out tax delinquency notices with fictional "jeopardy assessments." Those assessments aren't based on any actual tax determination, and are set deliberately high to induce the targeted taxpayer to contact the city's revenue department to determine the true amount of tax owed, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt wrote in the Commonwealth Court opinion on the Lerner case.

Philly's revenue collection manager, Denise Reynolds, admitted as much during a 2013 Philadelphia County Court hearing on the Lerner dispute. Leavitt highlighted Reynolds' testimony in her court's opinion.

When Lerner's attorney asked Reynolds whether the jeopardy assessment "is just something you make up to scare the taxpayers to come in," Reynolds replied, "Basically, yes."

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.s...ax_bi.html

I would pack my bags and leave.

Government is evil. Example #3,763,287,494.

Philadelphia declared war on middle-class property owners a long time ago. Anyone who's still there after all these years is practically begging to be abused.

I imagine this will be catching on in other dying and broke cities.

City of Brotherly Love indeed .

I visited Philly in the 80's. I was not impressed then.