Tax News and Resources

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Recent news and developing issues

  • IRS updates withholding guidance for 2013

    Jan 10, 2013
    The IRS has released updated income-tax withholding tables for 2013 reflecting last week’s changes by Congress.
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  • IRS proposes truncated ID numbers

    Jan 10, 2013
    The IRS is hoping to stem identity fraud by using a truncated ID number instead of taxpayer’s full Social Security number.
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  • What the fiscal cliff bill means for Ohio CPAs

    Jan 03, 2013
    America might have narrowly missed falling off the fiscal cliff, but 77% of households still face increased taxes, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
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  • Nominees sought for Ohio Tax Hall of Fame

    Jan 03, 2013
    The Ohio Department of Taxation in partnership with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce is seeking candidates for the Ohio Tax Hall of Fame.
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  • Ohio returning $13 million in CAT overpayments

    Dec 20, 2012
    The state of Ohio is returning more than $13 million to 3,500 Ohio businesses that unknowingly overpaid commercial activity tax.
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  • New law reduces Ohio add-back requirements

    Dec 20, 2012
    A new law, Am. Sub. H.B. 365, sponsored by OSCPA member Rep. Peter Beck, CPA, R-Mason, will allow business taxpayers who claim an enhanced federal income tax depreciation deduction to reduce the amount of the deduction the taxpayer must add-back for Ohio income tax purposes.
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  • Major tax changes are coming

    Dec 18, 2012
    We are reminded almost daily of the increases in most individual tax rates that are now scheduled to become effective on Jan. 1. Some of these increases, taken alone, seem modest. The real impact can only be analyzed, however, by looking at the aggregate increase in rates and the imposition of several new taxes.
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  • Supreme Court: CAT revenue from fuel sales must go for highways, bridges

    Dec 13, 2012
    The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last Friday in a 6-1 decision that the commercial activity tax (CAT) revenue from sales of motor fuel must be devoted to state highway and road construction/maintenance expenses.
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  • Ohio tax conformity bill passes Senate

    Dec 13, 2012
    Recent changes to the Internal Revenue Code should soon be Ohio law as the Ohio General Assembly adopted language easing the potential taxpayer compliance burden through conformity of state and federal tax codes in targeted areas.
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  • Testa supports municipal tax reform

    Dec 13, 2012
    Ohio Tax Commissioner Joe Testa told OSCPA members last week at OSCPA’s MegaTax Conference that he has received “letters by the hundreds from municipalities” regarding HB 601, which contains provisions establishing definitional uniformity of Ohio’s municipal tax structure.
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