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Emergency services tax proposal broadens reach Lauren Jessop August 8, 2025 August 7, 2025

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(The Center Square) – Raising taxes is never popular, but communities across Pennsylvania may soon gain the authority to do so as a way to confront a growing crisis in emergency services.

With fire departments and EMS agencies struggling to stay afloat amid volunteer shortages and chronic underfunding, a law passed last year may offer relief – but some say it doesn’t go far enough.

Act 54, signed into law in July 2024, updated the state’s fiscal code to allow select municipalities to raise property taxes dedicated solely to fire and EMS services. It raised the decades-old

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