Sunday, November 21, 1999
City income tax challenged
Under proposed law, nonresidents would not have to pay
BY KEVIN ALDRIDGE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A law that would prohibit cities from collecting income taxes from nonresidents moved a step closer to reality when the Ohio Attorney General's Office approved language of a petition seeking to put the proposal on next November's ballot.
Municipal income taxes now are primarily collected based on where a person works, not where he or she lives.
“We see this as a basic principle of no taxation without representation,” said William Morand, a Deerfield Township trustee and chairman of the Southwestern Ohio Township Association (SWOTA). “If you don't live there and you don't vote there, then you shouldn't have to pay taxes there.”
Mr. Morand, with William Seitz, Joseph Honerlaw and Eric Minamyer, all residents of Cincinnati-area townships and affiliated with SWOTA, have proposed the idea. The next step is to collect 335,421 signatures by Aug. 9 to get the issue on the November ballot.
Petitioners must collect signatures of 5 percent of the voters in each of 44 counties.
The Ohio Municipal League is “adamantly opposed” to the proposal, which could cost major cities millions of dollars, said John Mahoney, deputy director of the association of cities.
“It's pretty devastating for most cities,” he said.
Cities with the most to lose include Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, which collect the majority of their earnings tax from nonresidents.
Cities that would gain are those with high-salaried residents who work elsewhere, he said.
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