JEFFERSON — Ashtabula County commissioners still are waiting on an amended sales-tax resolution from the Ashtabula County Prosecutor’s Office, said Commissioner Daniel Claypool on Tuesday afternoon.
The resolution, which commissioners need to file with the Board of Elections by Feb. 18, will put the issue of a one-half-percent sales-tax increase before the voters on the May 4 ballot. Collection of the tax by merchants would not begin until the fourth quarter.
Claypool and Peggy Carlo originally wanted to start collecting the tax in April as an emergency measure, and commissioners held two public hearings on resolutions that would have enacted the tax as an emergency measure. The board amended the resolution to have the issue placed on the May ballot.
Claypool said commissioners knew that it was not legally possible to collect the tax ahead of the May vote but the clause that would have allowed that to happen remained in the resolution. The Ohio Department of Taxation subsequently rejected the resolution, and last week commissioners amended it once again to remove the April 1 collection provision. That action satisfied the referendum committee, which formed after learning the original resolution retained the advance-collection clause. The referendum effort has been stopped.
On Friday, the commissioners board learned the state tax department also had issues with the Ohio Revised Code reference in the twice-amended resolution. Claypool said the Prosecutor’s Office is working on new language for the resolution, which will require another vote of the commissioners board before sending it on to the Board of Elections.
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