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Why I failed to pay my taxes

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Why I failed to pay my taxes

A story about terrible software and bad local government contracts

Ben Werdmuller
Aug 10, 2023
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Why I failed to pay my taxes

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It turns out that Cheltenham Township, the municipality where I live across the northern Philadelphia border, incurs an extra earned income tax on top of the state and federal taxes that I’m used to paying. This would have been fine if I’d had any idea that such a tax existed, or if it had been automatically deducted from my payroll (everyone I got a pa…

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