Downs v. Buckingham Township

GARB, J.,

This is an appeal by 25 aggrieved taxpayers of the Township of Buckingham from ordinance Nos. 10-79 and 4-80 enacted by the Board of Township Supervisors imposing taxes upon earned income and net profits of residents of said Township. This appeal is filed pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 3, 1971, P.L. 1257 No. 6, §1,53 P.S. §6906. It is agreed that *194petitioners are indeed taxpayers of the municipality with standing to raise this appeal and that the matter is now ripe for decision by this court.

The petition asserts that the ordinance is unconstitutional as being in…