

State of Ohio Controversy As Emergency COVID Orders Expire
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Many of the health mandates issued by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine expired June 2, 2021 and all other health orders (except certain orders impacting assisted living and similar facilities), including capacity limits, social distancing rules, and the mask mandate, will end by July 1, 2021. Likewise, a series of lotteries have caused the Ohio vaccination rates currently at 45% to likely surge to almost 70% of t


Willacy II: Still No Escape for Snowbirds
PDF/Printer Friendly Version On May 25, 2021, the Ohio Supreme Court (“Court”) issued its decision in Willacy v. Cleveland Bd of Income Tax Review, 2021-Ohio-1734. If the name sounds familiar, it’s likely because the Court decided a similar case in February 2020 (“Willacy I”) discussed in an earlier SALT Buzz. Both cases involve the exercise of stock options by Hazel Willacy, a retired employee of Sherwin-Williams Company in Cleveland, Ohio, who moved to Florida prior to exer


Senate Introduces Many New Tax Provisions in Substitute Budget Bill
PDF/Printer Friendly Version The Ohio Senate Finance Committee accepted a substitute version of the biennial budget bill, Sub. H.B. 110 on June 1, 2021. The bill included many tax provisions which are bulleted below. Over the next several days, the Finance Committee will take testimony on the provisions and adopt an omnibus amendment next week, prior to passing the budget bill out of the Senate. Some more significant tax related provisions include: Repeal of the sales and use


Help on the Way From a Trio of Enacted Relief Bills
PDF/Printer Friendly Version Relief is available for many Ohio businesses and service providers as the result of a handful of recently enacted bills that distribute mostly federal money received by Ohio to aid in the pandemic recovery. Governor DeWine recently signed three bills that appropriate federal Coronavirus relief funds for Ohio businesses and others.SB 108 (Huffman and Romanchuk) and SB 109 (Manning and Rulli) passed in the Ohio House of Representatives on May 5 and