Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik Wednesday announced the awarding of more than $154 million in grants to fund economic development projects in Ohio's Appalachian region as they made stops in McArthur and Chillicothe.

OSCPA reached out directly last week to Ohio’s 15 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators to ask them to support legislation that incorporates accounting education into the STEM curricula for K-12 students. This effort is part of OSCPA’s broader goal of increasing the pipeline of future Ohio CPAs.

The Ohio Supreme Court today issued a 5-2 decision in the Schaad v. Alder case, Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-525, effectively denying impacted Ohio taxpayers from seeking a refund of municipal income tax paid to a municipality where they neither work nor live.

Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, are proposing to raise the reporting threshold on transactions from companies such as Airbnb, eBay, Etsy, PayPal and Venmo from $600 to $10,000 to save headaches for small businesses and individuals who work in the gig economy.

A number of OSCPA legislative priorities continue to move through the Ohio legislature, including House Bill 105—a measure that would limit notices and late filing penalties under R.C. 718.27.

Proponents of Issue 2 say the measure aims to stop local municipalities from allowing noncitizens to vote in elections. But is the ballot measure full of hidden language that restricts the right to vote for 17-year-olds and ties the hands of future legislatures on expanding voting registration?

Ohio voters turned out in record low numbers for the Aug. 2 primary where two Republican Ohio House challengers upset party-endorsed incumbents.

Thursday was a busy day for town halls, as both OSCPA and AICPA hosted informative sessions covering a range of topics of interest to CPAs and business professionals.

Attorney General Dave Yost joined all 50 state attorneys general Tuesday to announce the formation of a National Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force led by Ohio, Indiana and North Carolina.

On Friday evening, the Ohio Department of Taxation released an initial round of guidance on the SALT deduction cap parity. Also, ODT recently presented at a conference where they provided further details on both the SALT and BID bills.