Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley has put out a report that explored recycling an antiquated county intangible personal property tax, passed in 1913, by branding it a “wealth tax.” Once levied by counties in Pennsylvania, it disappeared 25 years ago for many reasons: legal challenges, administrative problems and broad acknowledgement that it was bad policy. Most concerning, the current label of a “wealth tax” is a sales pitch.