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...In addition to the tax levied under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall charge the tax imposed on the school district income of an individual by a school district under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code by multiplying the rate certified to be charged under such chapter by the taxpayer's school district income with respect to that district.

...An individual subject to the tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code whose modified adjusted gross income, less applicable exemptions under section 5747.025 of the Revised Code, for the taxable year as shown on an individual or joint annual return is less than thirty thousand dollars may claim a credit equal to twenty dollars times the number of exemptions allowed for the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, a...

... while so serving, shall be exempt from taxes as follows: (1) Any taxes imposed by this chapter or Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code for a taxable year commencing after 1990 if the individual is exempted by division (a)(1) of section 692 of the Internal Revenue Code from federal income taxes for such taxable year; (2) Any taxes imposed under this chapter or Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code for taxable years preced...

...Military pay and allowances received by members of the armed forces of the United States (as defined in Internal Revenue Code section 7701) which, pursuant to Internal Revenue Code section 112, is not included in gross income (as defined in Internal Revenue Code section 61) is not included in Ohio adjusted gross income as defined in section 5747.01 of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section shall be construed to a...

...(A) The personal exemption for the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and each dependent shall be one of the following amounts, provided the taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income is less than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for taxable years beginning in 2025 or five hundred thousand dollars for taxable years beginning in 2026 or thereafter: (1) Two thousand three hundred fifty dollars if the taxpayer's mod...

...(A) For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, each member of the national guard and each member of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States called to active duty pursuant to an executive order issued by the president of the United States or an act of the congress of the United States may apply to the tax commissioner for both an extension for filing of the return and an extension of...

...ted under this chapter arising from the taxes imposed by section 5747.02, 5747.38, or 5747.41 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the general revenue fund and distributed pursuant to division (F) of section 321.24 and section 323.156 of the Revised Code; to make subsidy payments to institutions of higher education from appropriations to the department of higher education; to support expenditures for programs and...

...For annual returns filed for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, the department of taxation shall determine and provide to the office of budget and management a report of the tax liability, before the application of any credits, under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code that arises from taxable business income, the tax liability, before the application of any credits, that arises from income, other t...

...ts, returns, and payments required of a taxpayer or employer by this chapter, except payments by electronic funds transfer as required under section 5747.072 of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the tax commissioner. Upon receipt by the commissioner of any payments under this chapter arising from a tax imposed under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall estimate and annually reconcile and ...

...As used in this section, "income tax" includes both a tax on net income and a tax measured by net income. The following credits shall be allowed against the aggregate income tax liability imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code on individuals and estates: (A)(1) The amount of tax otherwise due under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code on such portion of the combined adjusted gross income and taxable busi...

...er, a credit shall be allowed against a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income of less than forty thousand dollars. The amount of the credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the federal dependent care credit for which the taxpayer is eligible for the taxable year under section 21 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. 21; ex...

...cedent and are included in the estate's taxable income. (B) A credit shall be allowed against a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code for taxpayers who received retirement income during the taxable year and whose modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, less applicable exemptions under section 5747.025 of the Revised Code, as shown on an individual or joint annual ...

... required to deduct and withhold income tax under section 5747.06 of the Revised Code. (B) A nonrefundable credit is allowed against a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that holds a tax credit certificate issued under this section. The credit equals the amount listed on the certificate and shall be claimed for the taxable year that includes the last day of ...

...(A) A refundable income tax credit granted by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 or former division (B)(2) or (3) of section 122.171 of the Revised Code, as those divisions existed before the effective date of the amendment of this section by H.B. 64 of the 131st general assembly, September 29, 2015, may be claimed under this chapter, in the order required under section 5747.98 of the Revised Code. For pur...

...) This section applies only to reduce a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code. (B) There is hereby allowed a refundable credit against a taxpayer's aggregate tax liability under section 5747.02 of the Revised Code. This credit shall be equal to the taxpayer's proportionate share of the lesser of either the tax due or the tax paid under section 5733.41 or 5747.41 of the Revise...

...ny compensation to an employee who is a taxpayer shall deduct and withhold from such compensation for each payroll period a tax computed in such manner as to result, as far as practicable, in withholding from the employee's compensation during each calendar year an amount substantially equivalent to the tax reasonably estimated to be due from the employee under this chapter and Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code with ...

...mpensation paid to an employee who is a taxpayer the amount of tax required to be withheld by section 5747.06 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The director or other chief administrator of any state agency, in accordance with rules adopted by the department of administrative services, may direct its fiscal officer to deduct and withhold from the compensation paid to an employee who is a resident of a state with which the...

...e, shall file a return and remit to the tax commissioner all amounts deducted and withheld pursuant to this section during the preceding month. (3) On or before the thirty-first day of January of each year, the state lottery commission, and each transferee required to deduct and withhold amounts pursuant to section 3770.072 of the Revised Code, shall file with the commissioner an annual return, in the form prescrib...

...are in addition to the municipal income tax withholding requirements under section 718.031 of the Revised Code. (A) As used in this section, "video lottery sales agent" has the same meaning as in section 3770.10 of the Revised Code. (B) If a person's prize award from a video lottery terminal is an amount for which reporting to the internal revenue service of the amount is required by section 6041 of the Internal ...

...(A) If a taxpayer has elected under section 4141.321 of the Revised Code to have the director of job and family services deduct and withhold state income tax from the unemployment compensation benefits payable to the taxpayer, the director shall deduct and withhold such tax at the rate or rates that the director shall prescribe in consultation with the tax commissioner. (B)(1) On or before the tenth day of each mo...

...s during that week. (2) "Undeposited taxes" means the taxes an employer is required to deduct and withhold from an employee's compensation pursuant to section 5747.06 of the Revised Code that have not been remitted to the tax commissioner pursuant to this section or section 5747.072 of the Revised Code. (3) A "week" begins on Saturday and concludes at the end of the following Friday. (4) "Client employer" ha...

...reasonably estimated to be equal to the tax due from the recipient under this chapter and Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code for the year with respect to the recipient's benefits from the retirement system or retirement plan that are included in the recipient's adjusted gross income. The request shall be made pursuant to an application filed with the retirement system or retirement plan, on a form the system or plan s...

...f the Revised Code to remit undeposited taxes electronically shall do so by using the Ohio business gateway, as defined in section 718.01 of the Revised Code, or another means of electronic payment on or before the dates specified under that section. The tax commissioner shall notify each such employer of the employer's obligation to remit undeposited taxes electronically. Failure by the commissioner to notify an emp...

...ilar entity that is registered with the tax commissioner to submit employer withholding tax returns in accordance with this section. (2) "Payroll service provider" means a third party that assists an employer with payroll administration and state employer withholding tax obligations. A payroll service provider may include a professional employer organization or alternate employer organization. (3) "Client company...

...An annual return with respect to the tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code and each tax imposed under Chapter 5748. of the Revised Code shall be made by every taxpayer for any taxable year for which the taxpayer is liable for the tax imposed by that section or under that chapter, unless the total credits allowed under division (E) of section 5747.05 and divisions (F) and (G) of section 5747.055 of the Re...

...If an enterprise operating in a county or municipal corporation in this state intends to relocate or relocates part or all of its operations to another county or municipal corporation in this state and has entered into or intends to enter into an agreement under section 5709.62, 5709.63, or 5709.632 of the Revised Code with that county or municipal corporation, the legislative authority or an officer of the county or...

...ailroad operations shall be exempt from taxation for ten years beginning with the first year in which the property is so leased or otherwise made available. (B) The port authority shall make annual payments in lieu of taxes for all property that is exempt from taxation under division (A) of this section. The payments shall be charged and collected in the same manner as the taxes that would have been charged against ...

... personal property shall be exempt from taxation if the following conditions exist in the year for which exemption is sought: (A) The owner is a nonprofit corporation that is exempt from federal income taxes under the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and the owner's primary purposes are conducting research and development in library technology and providing computeriz...

...property that would first appear on the tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property after the effective date of a resolution adopted under this section were it not for the exemption granted by that resolution. For purposes of division (B) of this section, "improvements" do not include any property used or to be used for residential purposes. For this purpose, "property that is used or to be used for re...

...make annual service payments in lieu of taxes to the county treasurer on or before the final dates for payment of real property taxes. Each payment shall be charged and collected in the same manner and in the same amount as the real property taxes that would have been charged and payable against any improvement made on the parcel if it were not exempt from taxation. If any reduction in the levies otherwise applicable...

...(A) Any township that grants a tax exemption under section 5709.73 of the Revised Code shall establish a township public improvement tax increment equivalent fund into which shall be deposited service payments in lieu of taxes distributed to the township under section 5709.74 of the Revised Code. If the board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under division (C) of section 5709.73 of the Revised Code, the ...

...A) All of the following are exempt from taxes levied by the state and its subdivisions: (1) Public obligations; (2) Interest or interest equivalent on public obligations and on purchase obligations; (3) The transfer, and any profit made on the sale, exchange, or other disposition, of public obligations. (B) The exemptions granted by division (A) of this section apply to public obligations and purchase obliga...

...property that would first appear on the tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property after the effective date of a resolution adopted under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code were it not for the exemption granted by that resolution. For purposes of division (A) of section 5709.78 of the Revised Code, "improvement" does not include any property used or to be used for residential purposes. For this purpo...

...pose may be exempted from real property taxation, for a period of not more than ten years. The resolution shall specify the percentage of the improvement to be exempted and the life of the exemption. A resolution adopted under this division shall designate the specific public infrastructure improvements made, to be made, or in the process of being made by the county that directly benefit, or that once made will di...

...make annual service payments in lieu of taxes to the county treasurer on or before the final dates for payment of real property taxes. Each such payment shall be charged and collected in the same manner and in the same amount as the real property taxes that would have been charged and payable against the improvement if its value were not exempt from taxation. If any reduction in the levies otherwise applicable to the...

...at receives service payments in lieu of taxes under section 5709.79 of the Revised Code shall establish a redevelopment tax equivalent fund into which those payments shall be deposited. Separate accounts shall be established in the fund for each resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners under section 5709.78 of the Revised Code. If the board of county commissioners has adopted a resolution under divisio...

...the account of the county redevelopment tax equivalent fund established for such public infrastructure improvements and housing renovations, to pay the interest on and principal of the bonds or notes issued pursuant to the resolution. The resolution shall specify the maturity date or dates, the interest payable in accordance with section 9.95 of the Revised Code, and such other terms to be included in the bonds or no...

...truction of real property exempted from taxation under the chapters or sections of the Revised Code enumerated in division (B) of this section; (b) Persons not described by division (A)(1)(a) of this section who are first employed at the site of such property and who within the two previous years have not been subject, prior to being employed at that site, to income taxation by the municipal corporation within whos...

...or enter into any instrument granting a tax exemption under section 725.02, 1728.06, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.48, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, 5709.78, 5709.84, or 5709.88 of the Revised Code or formally approving an agreement under section 3735.671 of the Revised Code, or prior to forwarding an application for a tax exemption for residential property under section 3735.67 of the Revised Code to the co...

...ments" means improvements exempted from taxation under section 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code. (2) "Political subdivision" means the county, township, or municipal corporation granting an exemption from taxation under section 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code. (B) The legislative authority of a political subdivision that grants an exemption from t...

...rporation that grants an exemption from taxation under Chapter 725. or 1728. or section 3735.67, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code shall develop policies to ensure that the recipient of the exemption practices nondiscriminatory hiring in its operations. As used in this section, "nondiscriminatory hiring" means that no individual may be denied employment sol...

..., or (3) of this section is exempt from taxation for a period, not to exceed ten years, specified in the resolution or ordinance declaring the property as being used for a public purpose and commencing on the effective date of the resolution or ordinance. The exemption applies to the property only in the proportion it is used in local railroad operations within the territorial jurisdiction of the county, township, or...

...rporation that grants an exemption from taxation under Chapter 725. or 1728. or under section 3735.67, 5709.28, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.45, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code shall create a tax incentive review council. The council shall consist of the following members: (1) In the case of a municipal corporation eligible to designate a zone under section 5709.62 or 5709.632 of the ...

...se under this section are exempted from taxation for the number of years specified in the resolution or ordinance, not to exceed ten years from the day the property is purchased from the legislative authority, or, if the property is leased by the legislative authority, from the day the lease agreement takes effect. If only a portion of abandoned school property is purchased or leased, the exemption from taxation for ...

...n of the director, shall certify to the tax commissioner and to the director of development services that such a covenant has been issued, that such remedies or remedial activities have occurred at that property, and the date on which those remedial activities began. The certification shall be in such form as is agreed upon by the directors of environmental protection and development services and the tax commissioner...

... as determined for purposes of property taxation immediately prior to formal approval of an agreement under division (D) of this section. (6) "Occupy" means to make expenditures to alter or repair a vacant facility equal to at least twenty per cent of the market value of the facility prior to such expenditures, as determined for the purposes of local property taxation. (7) "Vacant facility" means a facility that ha...

...r not the investments are exempted from taxation, including existing or new building size and the cost thereof; the value of machinery, equipment, furniture, and fixtures, including an itemization of the value of machinery, equipment, furniture, and fixtures used at another location in this state prior to the agreement and relocated or to be relocated from that location to the facility, and the value of machinery, eq...

...n or county shall include the amount of taxes exempted and the estimated dollar value of any other incentives provided under the agreement. (3) The number of agreements receiving compliance reviews by the tax incentive review council in the municipal corporation or county under section 5709.883 of the Revised Code during the calendar year for which the report is submitted, including all of the following information...

...rporation that grants an exemption from taxation under section 5709.88 of the Revised Code shall create a tax incentive review council unless the county has created such a council under section 5709.85 of the Revised Code. If a council has been created under that section, that council shall perform the functions prescribed by this section. A council created under this section shall consist of the following members: ...

... ordinance exempting from real property taxation improvements to each parcel of real property whose construction commenced as the result of infrastructure whose development, repair, or upgrade was funded by a residential development loan accepted by the subdivision. The resolution or ordinance shall be adopted and begin to apply in the same tax year in which such infrastructure is developed, repaired, or upgraded. ...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision may make tax levies authorized in excess of the ten-mill limitation by a vote of the people under the law applicable thereto, irrespective of all limitations on the tax rate.

...ity of Cincinnati, shall certify to its taxing authority the amount necessary to provide for the payment of final judgments against the subdivision, except in condemnation of property cases. The taxing authority shall place such certified amount in each budget and in the annual appropriation measure for the full amount certified. On or before the first Monday in November of each year, the fiscal officer of th...

... source other than the general property tax, which the law requires to be used for a particular purpose; (G) A special fund for each public utility operated by a subdivision; (H) A trust fund for any amount received by a subdivision in trust.

...The board of county commissioners of each county shall establish a county developmental disabilities general fund. Notwithstanding section 5705.10 of the Revised Code, proceeds from levies under section 5705.222 and division (L) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall be deposited to the credit of the county developmental disabilities general fund. Accounts shall be established within the county developmental di...

...sources other than the general property tax, unless its use for a particular purpose is prescribed by law, shall be paid into the general fund. (B) All revenue derived from general or special levies for debt charges, whether within or in excess of the ten-mill limitation, which is levied for the debt charges on serial bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness having a life less than five years, shall be paid in...

...Whenever lands are removed from the tax duplicate of a county under the act of June 28, 1938, 45 Stat. 535, 33 U.S.C.A. 701b, or the "Flood Control Act of 1954," 68 Stat. 1266, U.S.C.A. 701c-3, and the federal government makes payments to the county in lieu of the general real property taxes, in the form of rents or otherwise, such revenues shall be distributed by the board of county commissioners to the taxing distr...

..., and 5705.131 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of a subdivision may establish, with the approval of and in the manner prescribed by the auditor of state, such other funds as are desirable, and may provide by ordinance or resolution that money derived from specified sources other than the general property tax shall be paid directly into such funds.

...ce pension fund, an urban redevelopment tax increment equivalent fund, or a cemetery fund. A township may establish by law a cemetery fund. A subdivision that levies a tax for the purpose described in division (ZZ) or (AAA) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code shall establish a general capital and infrastructure fund to which the proceeds from that levy shall be credited. By resolution or ordinance, the taxing ...

...(A) A taxing authority of a subdivision, by resolution or ordinance, may establish reserve balance accounts to accumulate currently available resources for the following purposes: (1) To stabilize subdivision budgets against cyclical changes in revenues and expenditures; (2) Except as otherwise provided by this section, to provide for the payment of claims and deductibles under an individual or joint self-insuran...

...A taxing authority of a subdivision may establish a nonexpendable trust fund for the purpose of receiving donations or contributions that the donor or contributor requires to be maintained intact. The principal of such fund may be invested, and the investment earnings on the principal shall be credited to the fund.

...In addition to any reserve balance account established under section 5705.13 of the Revised Code, a board of township trustees, by resolution, may establish a reserve balance account to accumulate currently available resources for any purpose for which the board may lawfully expend money of the township other than for the purposes for which a reserve balance account may be established under section 5705.13 of the Rev...

...shall only be made by resolution of the taxing authority passed with the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members.

...ection 5705.14 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority of any political subdivision may, in the manner provided in this section and section 5705.16 of the Revised Code, transfer from one fund to another any public funds under its supervision, except the proceeds or balances of loans, bond issues, special levies for the payment of loans or bond issues, the proceeds or balances of funds derived from any excise tax le...

...A resolution of the taxing authority of any political subdivision shall be passed by a majority of all the members thereof, declaring the necessity for the transfer of funds authorized by section 5705.15 of the Revised Code, and such taxing authority shall submit to the tax commissioner a petition that includes the name and amount of the fund, the fund to which it is desired to be transferred, a copy of such resoluti...

...In addition to sections 5705.14 and 5705.15 of the Revised Code, and any other sections of the Revised Code relating to the transfer of funds between subdivisions, the board of county commissioners of any county, the council or other legislative authority of any municipal corporation, and the trustees of any township, not furnishing general assistance, upon a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board of county c...

...of the Revised Code do not apply to the tax levies of any municipal corporation which, by its charter or amendment thereto, provides for a limitation of the total tax rate which may be levied without a vote of the people for all the purposes of the municipal corporation, or for the current operating expenses thereof. Said charter or charter amendment may also provide for the levying of taxes by said legislative autho...

..., or lake facilities authorities. The taxing authority of any subdivision at any time and in any year, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of the taxing authority, may declare by resolution and certify the resolution to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the election upon which it will be voted that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient ...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision, other than the board of education of a school district or the taxing authority of a county school financing district, by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary r...

...For the purposes of this section only, "taxing authority" includes a township board of park commissioners appointed under section 511.18 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxing authority may propose to replace an existing levy that the taxing authority is authorized to levy, regardless of the section of the Revised Code under which the authority is granted, except a school district emergency levy proposed pursuant to sec...

...he electors of a county have approved a tax levy under section 5705.191 of the Revised Code for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition or construction of a specific permanent improvement or class of permanent improvements for the county, the taxing authority of such county may anticipate a fraction of the proceeds of such levy and from time to time, during the life of such levy, issue anticipation notes i...

... the revenue that will be raised by all tax levies which the district is authorized to impose, when combined with state and federal revenues, will be insufficient to provide for the emergency requirements of the school district or to avoid an operating deficit, and that it is therefore necessary to levy an additional tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation. The resolution shall be confined to a single purpose and sh...

...itor shall calculate and certify to the taxing authority the annual levy, expressed in dollars for each one hundred thousand dollars of the county auditor's appraised value as well as in mills for each one dollar of taxable value, throughout the life of the levy which will be required to produce the annual amount set forth in the resolution assuming that the amount of the tax list of such subdivision remains througho...

...n, and the estimated average additional tax rate expressed in dollars for each one hundred thousand dollars of the county auditor's appraised value as well as in mills for each one dollar of taxable value, outside the limitation imposed by Section 2 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, as certified by the county auditor.

...t the levy is to produce) and a levy of taxes to be made outside of the ten-mill limitation estimated by the county auditor to average __________ mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $__________ for each $100,000 of the county auditor's appraised value, for a period of __________ (here insert the number of years the millage is to be imposed) years? FOR THE TAX LEVY AGAINST THE TAX LEVY ...

...The taxing authority of a joint recreation district may levy a tax approved by the electors for the purpose stated in division (H) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and for a continuing period of time, and in accordance with that section. After the approval at any time of a levy for that purpose by vote, the taxing authority of a joint recreation district may anticipate a fraction of the proceeds of that levy an...