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January 29, 2024Policy Matters Ohio: New Data Show Just How Upside-Down Ohio’s Tax Code Is
In 2023, the lowest-paid Ohioans spent more than twice as much of their income on state and local taxes than the highest-paid, according to a new study by the Institute…
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November 10, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: Tax Policy For the People
Every family in Ohio should be able to afford healthy food, a safe home, health care and the other elements of a good life. Ohio has the resources to make…
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October 24, 20232023’s State and Local Tax Ballot Measures: Voters to Weigh in on Property Taxes, Wealth Taxes, and More
Even in this slow year for candidate elections, the decisions that voters in states and cities make could strengthen or weaken revenue for needs in their communities and could change…
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October 1, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: Ohio Needs a Property-Tax Circuit Breaker
Sharp rises in home assessment values are bringing property-tax relief to the forefront at the Statehouse in Columbus. While various bills may provide a partial answer to the property tax… -
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July 7, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: Legislators Squander Golden Opportunity
The operating budget includes a $1-billion-per-year income-tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, does nothing for Ohioans in the lowest-income 20%, and temporarily increases taxes for some middle-income households. Read… -
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June 15, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: Senate Tax Plan Pits the Rich Against the Rest of Us
The Ohio Senate has voted to weaken the state’s fiscal foundations in order to hand out billions of dollars to wealthy households. The changes to the state’s personal income taxes,…
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June 6, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: A Better Earned Income Tax Credit Will Help Ohio’s Working Families
Ohio’s leaders can use the tax system to increase economic stability for every family in the state. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a proven, powerful tool to do… -
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April 25, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: How Ohio’s Income Tax Works – and How the House Budget Would Change It
The proposed changes to the state’s personal income tax in the House substitute budget bill are another blow to Ohio’s only tax that is based on the ability to pay,… -
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April 4, 2023Policy Matters Ohio: Testimony on HB 33 Before the House Finance Committee
This general assembly has the good fortune of budgeting in a time of surplus. Smart federal policy drove cash to people and businesses so when the worst of covid passed,…