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Some local city leaders and the Ohio Municipal League are arguing against attempts to change income tax laws that allow cities to collect tax from those working remotely, outside city boundaries.
But state Sen. Kristina Roegner of Akron maintains workers should not be forced to pay taxes in communities where they aren’t physically working. “The taxes paid should be going to the communities that are providing services to the workers,” Roegner said in her reasoning for the legislation, Senate Bill 352. The bill would return Ohio’s income tax guidelines to pre-pandemic rules where income tax is assessed in the community where work is done.
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Brook Park opposes proposed state repeal of income tax collection emergency provision
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Brook Park officials oppose an attempt by Ohio legislators to repeal a provision that currently enables municipalities to collect income taxes from employees working for Brook Park-based companies, even if they are working from home in other cities due to the pandemic.
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BROOK PARK, Ohio Brook Park does not support an attempt to repeal an Ohio emergency provision instituted during the pandemic that allows cities to continue withholding income tax from people working in companies based in their communities, even if they are working from home elsewhere.
Ohio Governor
Mike DeWine (pictured) told reporters it is “pretty clear” that the state will not execute anyone in 2021.
In a December 8, 2020 year-end interview with Associated Press, DeWine said the state has an “unofficial moratorium” on the death penalty as a result of its inability to procure lethal injection execution drugs and that legislators would have to choose a different method of putting prisoners to death before executions resume in the future. Ohio has not conducted an execution since July 2018, and DeWine said he did not think the legislature would consider switching execution methods to be a priority.
DeWine’s announcement is the latest in a long series of death-penalty related developments in Ohio in 2019 and 2020. In January 2019, federal magistrate Judge Michael Merz, likening the state’s execution process to a combination of waterboarding, suffocation, and exposure to chemical fire, issued an opinion saying that executions under Ohio’s current
Hillsboro approves ’21 budget
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Council president Tom Eichinger presides over the Hillsboro City Council’s Monday meeting. Councilwoman Ann Morris is pictured in the foreground.
Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
Hillsboro City Council met for the final time in 2020 Monday night, approving and adopting 11 ordinances and resolutions, including $5,421,820 in general fund appropriations for 2021.
City auditor Alex Butler told The Times-Gazette that the $5.4 million general fund budget was “the most critical” for budget funding and was mainly derived from income tax sources.
Appropriations for 2021 totaled $14,821,370, which Butler said came from other funding sources besides the income tax, and in some cases, funded themselves.