Report: Tax Policy Benefits Flow Heavily to Wealthiest Ohioans
media mentionThe windfall for the wealthy results from cuts in state income taxes, the major tax that is based on the ability to pay, while increases in other taxes such as the sales tax fall more heavily on lower- and middle-income Ohioans.
Those are the key findings of an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit national research group with a sophisticated model of state and local tax systems across the country.