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Hearing finds Philadelphia's beverage-tax revenue declining; city pre-K and related programs increasingly rely on general fund
Summary
PHILADELPHIA ' City finance officials told the Council's Committee on Labor and Civil Service on Oct. 31 that Philadelphia's sweetened beverage tax can no longer fully cover the programs it was created to fund, and that the city's five-year plan anticipates increasing general-fund supplementation.
PHILADELPHIA ' City finance officials told the Council's Committee on Labor and Civil Service on Oct. 31 that Philadelphia's sweetened beverage tax can no longer fully cover the programs it was created to fund, and that the city's five-year plan anticipates increasing general-fund supplementation.
Rob Dubow, the city's finance director, told the committee that the tax, enacted in 2017 at 1.5 cents per ounce, generated about $77 million in its first full year but has trended downward in most years since. "In the September since the beverage tax began, it's generated about $620,000,000 in total revenues," Dubow said. He told members that FY25 collections were estimated around $68…
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