Whitemarsh Township: Business Owes Us $100K

The Whitemarsh Board of Supervisors Thursday night authorized the township solicitor to file litigation against a Conshohocken business.

Township solicitor Sean Kilkenny said the business Ecount owes a shade over $100,000 in taxes to the township and said that the company has been “unresponsive” when it comes to working with the township or its auditor.

“We’ve exhausted all remedies under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights … so it was the finance department’s recommendation, the manager's and [the solicitor’s] recommendation, that we consider litigation in the hopes of ‘stirring it up a little bit’ and hopefully coming to some sort of settlement,” Kilkenny said.

According to Kilkenny, the township’s auditor has asked to look into Ecount’s tax records for the years 2007 through 2011, and the auditor has gotten no response. 

“And because we’ve gotten no response, we’ve decided to begin litigation,” Kilkenny said.

Ecount has little web presence, but Kilkenny said the business, which is located at 555 North Lane, is still running.

According to a Philly.com article, Ecount provides pre-paid Visa and MasterCards to businesses, including several national corporations. But, the business was purchased by Citigroup in 2007; neither business disclosed the financial terms of the deal.

A “Bloomberg Businessweek” profile lists Ecount as being founded in 1997 and located on North Lane in Conshohocken; it lists the company’s website as a Citibank website, and the phone number listed takes callers to company called “Citi Pre-paid Services.”

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