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RESOLUTION N0.$ 76 <br />Introduced by : Mayor Leech <br />A RESOLUTION URGING THE NON-PASSAGE <br />OF HOUSE BILL NUMBER 176 <br />WHEREAS, the Regional Income Tax Agency created under Chapter 167 of <br />the Ohio Revised Code is the central collection agency for 46 municipalities <br />located in the counties of Erie, Lorain, Summit, Portage, and Cuyahoga, and <br />further said agency represents over 300,000 individual taxpayers and col- <br />lected and distributed to member municipalities in 1974 an excess of over <br />$30,000,000.00 in municipal income tax revenue; and <br />WHEREAS, House Bill No. 176 has been introduced into the State Legis- <br />lature proposing the enactment of Section 718e07 of the Ohio Revised Code <br />which would require mandatory use of a standard municipal income tax return <br />designed and.ordered by the State of Ohio Tax Commissioner; and <br />WHEREAS, a uniform municipal income tax form designed for communities <br />collecting only place of employment tax and allowing a 100% credit for the place <br />of residence could not possibly be used by a regional agency due to the varying <br />rates of tax and varying credits used by the member communities; and <br />WIiEREAS, over 25% of the taxing municipalities in the State of Ohio <br />representing an estimated 40% of the po.pulation of the State of Ohio presently <br />belong to joint collecting agencies, and each of these municipalities can enact <br />varying tax rates and varying credits under the Ohio Constitution; and <br />WHEREAS, a uniform income tax form would eliminate the inherent <br />economies of a joint collecting agency, and reduce the compliance capabilities <br />and hence the income revenues of the individual member municipalities, and <br />also would completely destroy the inter-municipal cooperation now fostered <br />among the various Ohio municipalities. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Trustees of the <br />Regional Income Tax Agency urges the non-passage of House Bill No. 176 for <br />the reason that the passage of said bill would eliminate the-inherent economies <br />of joint collecting agencies; would reduce the compliance capabilities and hence <br />the income revenues of the individual member municipalities; would destroy the <br />inter-municipal cooperation now fostered among the various Ohio municipalities,