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2013-036
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4/8/2013
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WHEREAS, provisions in this bill hamper every municipality's ability to audit and correct <br />municipal income tax returns, to equitably enforce the municipal income tax laws, create increased <br />cost of administration due to burdensome notification requirements, reduce revenue due to <br />"unfunded mandates" and elimination of compliance processes, and has been crafted as a vehicle to <br />control the administrative process of municipal income tax to the benefit of specific taxpayer <br />interests; and <br />WHEREAS, municipalities must fight to protect their single largest revenue source, which <br />provides essential municipal services, promoting a positive quality of life that residents and <br />businesses alike rely upon, and any forced reduction in this revenue will have a negative impact on <br />residents and businesses, creating an environment detrimental to retaining and attracting business in <br />Ohio. <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />NORTH OLMSTED, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, AND STATE OF OHID: <br />SECTION 1: This Council does declare its strong opposition to any effort by the Ohio <br />General Assembly to pass legislation that creates "unfunded mandates" and a loss of revenue for <br />municipalities. <br />SECTION 2: This Council urges its state legislators to reject HB 5, and any amendment to <br />pending bills and opposes the introduction of new legislation that proposes to reduce municipal <br />income tax revenue to municipalities in Ohio. <br />SECTION 3: The Ohio General Assembly should request the drafting of legislation that <br />would address the multitude of issues that were agreed upon as a result of the Interested Parties <br />meetings, which will bring uniformity to areas including (but not limited to) due dates for estimated <br />tax payments, due dates of withholding payments, due dates and procedures for extension request <br />filing, due dates for annual Reconciliation of Returns, all of which will simplify the compliance <br />process for businesses and individuals alike. <br />SECTION 4: The Ohio General Assembly must focus on restoring previous funding levels <br />to the Ohio Business Gateway and focus on correcting its multitude of programming problems and <br />customer service issues to make that tool less cumbersome, mare useful and relevant to <br />municipalities and businesses as a simple, generic, one-stop method of filing local business income <br />tax returns in one location. <br />SECTION 5: Members of the Ohio House and Senate should engage in constructive <br />dialogue with local officials to gain consensus on correction of the perceived issues of potential <br />revenue-neutral commonality and uniformity in those few remaining differences in municipal income <br />tax provisions. <br />SECTION 6: That this Resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure <br />? immediately necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety and welfare, and far the <br />`?° reason that this legislation must go into effect immediately in order to be timely considered during
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