The ongoing issue of municipal income taxes and where Ohioans actually work continues to be a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Ohio House moved a step closer Wednesday to settling the matter. The House Ways and Means Committee passed House Bill 157, which would solidify the state’s standing that cities only can tax people who live in that city or work in that city. When the pandemic first struck, the General Assembly passed a law that allowed cities to continue to pull taxes from employees who worked from home while the state was under a stay-at-home order, even though that home would be in another community. That plan was designed to not pull significant amounts of taxpayers’ dollars from major cities. Since then, Columbus-based think tank The Buckeye Institute became involved in five lawsuits challenging the law, winning a settlement in one while the others are awaiting resolutions…
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