What you earn, what you spend it on are factors Dayton Daily News The new federal tax-cut bill will create a new tax landscape, as states and local communities scramble to fill the holes left by reduced federal spending.
Columbus Dispatch Tax Commissioner Thomas M. Zaino knows how companies beat the government out of taxes. He used to help them do it. Zaino, 39, left the private sector — he was a partner in the Columbus office of the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm — to join the Taft administration in
Budget bill does little to close loopholes and ease burden on workers, some critics say Columbus Dispatch Why are so many Ohio corporations paying so little tax? That’s the $64,000 question — or maybe the $50 question. Of 101,411 nonfinancial businesses liable for corporate-franchise tax in 2002, 46 percent of
Middle-class, poor face more tax burden than rich The Toledo Blade COLUMBUS – The tax burden on the poor and middle-class would increase more than the wealthy and many businesses would get tax breaks in the budget bill that the Ohio Senate approved, opponents said yesterday. Full Article
The Toledo Blade COLUMBUS – Five years ago, 19 of Ohio’s 132 state legislators were paid $100,000 or more per year, when their state pay and outside income were tallied. Full Article
But individuals may see new taxes in Senate budget plan; schools would loseBy Doug Oplinger and Dennis J. Willard The Akron Beacon Journal COLUMBUS – The Ohio Senate is working on a budget proposal that could raise nearly $2 billion in new taxes and other revenues in 2005 — most
Penny-on-dollar boost would stress low, middle income Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | A penny-on-the-dollar temporary state sales tax increase, the leading contender to raise the extra money needed to balance the new two-year budget, would impose heavier financial burdens on low- and middle-income Ohioans than those at the top of
Gongwer News Service The temporary one-cent sales tax increase included in the pending state budget bill (HB 95) would increase the sales tax burden on low-income Ohioans by more than five times the increase it imposes on the state’s residents with the highest income, according to a report Policy Matters
The Akron Beacon Journal If the vast majority of Ohioans struggle to name even one member of the Ohio Supreme Court, it is a safe bet that few are familiar with the workings of the State Controlling Board. On the Monday Commentary page, Zach Schiller explained why they should be.
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But lawmaker says Senate OK unlikely The Toledo Blade COLUMBUS – Most of Gov. Bob Taft s plan to overhaul Ohio s tax system likely won’t be part of the two-year budget that must be adopted by July 1, a key Republican legislator said yesterday. Full Article
Horse Trading Begins for Votes in Senate to Pass Video Gaming Bill Gongwer News Service Senate Republicans and Democrats began negotiations Tuesday aimed at producing sufficient votes to pass legislation (SB 313) to allow video gaming at Ohio’s seven horse racing tracks. The negotiations were aimed at securing sufficient votes
