The Columbus Dispatch: Debate over Ohio’s Shift from Income to Sales Taxes Continues

But Policy Matters says that figure does not include all taxes being raised, including the commercial-activity tax on gross receipts. Using figures calculated by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the Cleveland research group estimates that the latest proposed tax changes would leave the bottom 60 percent of earners, on average, paying more in taxes while the top 5 percent would see cuts averaging $890 to nearly $12,000.

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