Ohio Bill Seeks Municipal Income Tax Relief Amid COVID-19

Ohio would allow certain employers to forgo withholding municipal income tax for the duration of the state's declared novel coronavirus disaster under a bill recently introduced in the state House of Representatives.

H.B. 591, introduced Wednesday by Rep. John Rogers, D-Mentor-on-the-Lake, would give a temporary exemption for employers whose employees perform personal services in a municipal corporation.

Employers would not be required to withhold municipal income tax between March 9 and the earlier of July 8 or the day following the last effective day of the disaster declaration for the new coronavirus outbreak.

The bill would take immediate effect if enacted.

--Editing by Neil Cohen.

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