Upper Bern Township, Pennsylvania local income tax

Berks County · tax year 2026

1% resident earned income tax

0.5% goes to Upper Bern and 0.5% to Hamburg Area School District. People who work in Upper Bern but live elsewhere owe a nonresident rate of 1%.

PSD code
060906
for Form W-2 and withholding
Nonresident EIT
1%
Local services tax
$52
a year; exempt under $12,000
Population
1,613
Census estimate, 2025

Rates and collector

PSD codeResident EITNonresidentLSTEIT collector
0609061%1%$52Berks Earned Income Tax Bureau
(610) 372-8439

Upper Bern is in the Hamburg Area School District and the Berks Tax Collection District. Collector website: berkseit.com.

What employers withhold

Pennsylvania employers withhold local earned income tax at the higher of two rates: the total resident rate where the employee lives, or the nonresident rate where they work. For someone who lives and works in Upper Bern, that's 1%: about $500 a year on $50,000 of wages. Report the employee's PSD code on Form W-2 and on the quarterly return to the collector.

The local services tax (LST) of $52 a year is withheld from people who work in Upper Bern, usually in equal amounts each pay period, unless the employee expects to earn less than $12,000 here this year.

Pennsylvania's Act 32 rules: DCED local withholding tax FAQs.

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Sources

We copy figures from official sources and re-check them against the source before every update. See our methodology. This is general information, not legal advice.