Pennsylvania Active Sales Tax Licenses and Exemption Certificates with Geospatial Data
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Description
Sales, Use & Hotel Occupancy Tax Licenses and Certificates Current Monthly County Revenue is a dataset from the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (DOR) listing active tax licenses and certificates. It is intended to be refreshed monthly, adding new and removing expired licenses. The data includes business names, addresses, license types, expiration dates, and numerous geospatial boundary columns for Pennsylvania.
Use Cases
Mapping business density by county using County, Municipality Boundary 2, and Georeferenced Latitude & Longitude columns.
Analyzing the distribution of License Type (e.g., sales tax vs. exemption) across different Pa Senatorial Districts (2017-01) 2 or Pa House Districts (2017-01) 2.
Identifying businesses with upcoming renewals by filtering on the Expiration Date column.
Correlating business locations with school district funding sources by joining on Pa School Districts (2017) 2.
Verifying the physical presence of out-of-state vendors for tax nexus analysis using Street Address, City, and State columns.
Strengths
Includes multiple geospatial boundary columns (e.g., Pennsylvania County Boundaries 2, US House Districts for PA 2019) for rich spatial analysis.
Dataset is maintained monthly by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, suggesting ongoing curation.
Contains detailed business identifiers including Legal Name, Trade Name, and a (partially masked) Account Number.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
The description notes address data may contain misspellings as the DOR does not validate location addresses.
Last updated 2026-04-01 17:09:58; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
Source
Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (DOR), published via data.pa.gov.
Collection Method
Administratively collected and maintained list of active tax licenses and certificates.
Time Range
Current active records; temporal coverage is not specified.
Freshness
Intended to be refreshed monthly; last updated date is 2026-04-01.
Geography
Primarily Pennsylvania, but includes out-of-state addresses for businesses with tax obligations in PA.
A portion of the license/certificate number is masked to reduce fraud. Addresses are not validated by the DOR and may contain errors.