Columbus, OH – Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, issued the following statement on Substitute House Bill 110, Ohio’s biennial operating budget, which was unveiled by the Ohio Senate Finance Committee. 

“The Ohio Senate leadership deserves a round of applause for recognizing the constitutional problem inherent in Ohio’s emergency-based local income tax system that unconstitutionally allows cities to tax people who neither live nor work there. The Senate’s changes would protect Ohio taxpayers as The Buckeye Institute has called for in its cases challenging the state’s pandemic-based tax system.

“The Senate also improved the state’s budget by offering Ohioans meaningful tax relief to spur the state’s continuing economic recovery, protecting and enhancing school choice programs, and controlling the potential explosion in overall K-12 education costs. 

“Additionally, though the Senate removed the House’s mandatory expansion of the successful Targeted Community Alternatives to Prison program, it did expand the number of people eligible for the voluntary program, offering greater hope to those suffering from addiction.”

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