Pittsburgh is dropping a plan that would have taxed college students on their tuition. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl proposed the 1% tax last month to raise $15 million a year that the city needs to bolster its pension plan. He nixed the idea Monday after heavy criticism from the city’s universities and colleges, and state lawmakers. Pittsburgh would have been the first city in the nation to tax tuition.
In what he regarded as a “leap of faith,” Mayor Luke Ravenstahl of Pittsburgh agreed on Monday to shelve his plans for the nation’s first tax on college tuition in exchange for an increase in voluntary contributions from local colleges and universities to the city. He strikes a deal to abandon tuition tax.
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