Effective January 1, 2025 the Altoona City Resident Earned Income Tax Rate increased to 1.70%. The Altoona City Non-Resident Earned Income Tax Rate is 1.40%.

Employers that are interested in online filing of local earned income and local services tax, please contact  the Blair County Tax Collection Bureau to receive a registration form and logon instructions.

PALITE allows employers to upload the "details" of your employees' tax information using a Microsoft Excel file or a IRS-defined file formats called MMREF or EFW2. We have a samples of EIT and LST file formats for Microsoft Excel in our file downloads on this page.

Conditions under which PALITE will accept your file

• PALITE will ONLY support XLS (Excel 97-2003) and XLSX (Excel 2007+)
• PALITE will NOT support XLS (Excel 95) and older versions
• PALITE will REJECT Excel files if saving an Excel 2007-2016 file as “something.XLS” or save an Excel 97-2003 file as “something.xlsx”
• PALITE may REJECT Excel files that have macros in them. These files usually named "something.xlsm" or "something.xlm". 

More helpful hints

Rows in your Excel file that have formatting commands like colors, gridlines, special height/width instructions, or other settings may cause PALITE to believe the row should have data, and be processed. You then get a list of errors telling you there should be data where you didn’t intend to have any data. You know those rows are supposed to be empty.

Sound familiar? Good. You’re in the right place.

PALITE reads through your Excel file until it finds a blank row…then it assumes there’s no more data that needs to be processed. The problem is that colors, gridlines, widths, and other settings make PALITE think that such a row should also have valid data.

The fix is to make sure the line below your data is empty. It’s okay to have formulas or other items below the blank line, but you must have a blank line below the data.