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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2013 - 36 <br />By: Mayor Kennedy and Council Member Barker <br />A RESOLUTION STRONGLY OPPOSING THE PASSAGE OF <br />HB S BY THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHICH <br />PROPOSES UNIFORMITY MEASURES FOR MUNICIPAL <br />INCOME TAX IN THE FORM OF UNFUNDED MANDATES <br />AND A SUBSTANTIAL LOSS OF REVENUE, AND <br />DECLARING AN EMER GENCY. <br />WHEREAS, the Municipal Income Tax Uniformity Coalition, headed by the Ohio Society of <br />CPA's with business community membership including the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, with <br />support from Representative Henne and Representative Barnes, met with members of the Ohio <br />Municipal League and municipal income tax representatives; and <br />WHEREAS, the purpose of these meetings was to achieve consensus on issues regarding <br />municipal income tax uniformity for the inclusion in legislation; and <br />? WHEREAS, municipalities agree that revenue neutral uniformity on issues that will ease <br />? compliance burdens for businesses in and potentially locating in Ohio would be of great benefit to all <br />of Ohio; and <br />WHEREAS, the Coalition has drafted and introduced language that is detrimental to the <br />financial stability of municipalities, will drastically reduce revenue for all municipalities in Ohio, <br />and includes "unfunded mandates" which will cripple the ability of municipalities to provide basic <br />services to residents and resident businesses alike; and <br />WHEREAS, HB 5 includes provisions that require State oversight of municipal income tax <br />administration, administrative policies and procedures for municipal income tax collection and <br />administration that dramatically hamper the ability to administer the tax in an effective manner; and <br />WHEREAS, municipalities have been responsive in the past to efforts to streamline the rules <br />and regulations and create uniformity in the overwhelming majority of local tax codes creating a <br />streamline process for all taxpayers; and <br />WHEREAS, only municipalities can ensure the prompt and proper auditing of local tax <br />returns to ensure all applicable deductions and declarations are reported, thus also ensuring that all <br />taxpayers pay their fair share without causing higher costs of compliance for all, and must be able to <br />do so without burdensome and costly restrictions included in HB 5 created with the only purpose of <br />restricting municipalities from correcting/auditing returns or making assessments; and