Non-residents of Philadelphia may use their Philadelphia city wage tax as a credit for income-tax liability in other jurisdictions, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

The ruling is a loss for five tax-collection committees from counties neighboring Philadelphia, which failed to persuade the court to abandon the so-called “super credit” tax assessment procedure, a method crediting the city’s non-resident earnings income tax against taxes for income earned outside of Philadelphia.

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