Mishmash of city taxes hurts economy  Ohio’s municipal-income
tax system is like death by a thousand paper cuts for taxpayers.
House Bill 5 will help to fix this barrier to economic
development and make Ohio a better place to do business.  Ohio
is the only state in the nation where almost 600 cities dictate
their own tax rules, regulations and deadlines. That means many
Ohioans who live and work in different cities must file and pay
in both places. This process is multiplied tenfold for small
businesses that are forced to file in dozens of cities where
they provide goods or services. Ohio residents should not be
paying more to file taxes than they owe. Forbes got it right
recently when it said that Ohio has the “most complicated,
absurd, and punitive system of municipal taxation in the
nation.”  Roger Geiger, vice president and executive director of
the National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio, agrees
with me. That’s why our two associations have joined with 28
others to form the Municipal Tax Reform