[MineralMan]

"It isn't just business where the tax collectors are getting too nosy. I moved to a rural township in Pennsylvania last year - and within a week I had a questionnaire in my mailbox (lord knows how they found out I was newly in the township) asking, among other things, my occupation and where I had moved from. PA has an occupation tax that is only charged by a few townships, and townships that levy an income tax cannot collect occupation tax. "

An occupation tax? That's strange, I think. I've never heard of such a thing. Income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, but an occupation tax? Do different occupations get charged different amounts? I'm gonna go look on Google for more info about this.

[dirtboy]

An occupation tax? That's strange, I think. I've never heard of such a thing. Income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, but an occupation tax? Do different occupations get charged different amounts? I'm gonna go look on Google for more info about this.

It's a very, very old tax, and very few townships in PA collect it - and they do charge different flat rates for different occupations.