Ohio income and taxes

Source topic or question: Building Safer Communities

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Republicans in Ohio have defunded public safety for years to pay for tax cuts for Ohio’s wealthiest. These cuts have resulted in layoffs, chronic officer shortages, and understaffed first responder units. As Governor, I will rebuild state and local partnerships, fully fund the police and public safety, and ensure that communities again have the public safety resources they need. My opponent’s plan to eliminate property taxes will defund our police, firefighters and first responders. This hurts our kids and makes all of us less safe.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Standing Up for Workers

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I’ll combat the constant SB 5- style efforts to attack our unions and collective bargaining rights , and I will use the Commerce Department and other offices to ensure that employers follow collective bargaining laws, crack down on wage theft, worker misclassification, and other abuses that deprive workers of their hard-earned wages. I will always be a steadfast pro-union, pro-worker Governor.

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Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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It is the position of this campaign that any system of taxation should be broad based, consistent in its application, and simple in its design. It should prize efficiency and balancing revenue with expenditures. The most efficient, least distorting taxes should be used first and only new taxes applied when reasonable After these considerations have been met, it can also be used in a limited capacity for a more equitable and socially desirable flow of capital. It must be done sparingly so as not to complicate the tax code and to prevent special interests from securing themselves improper or undesirable benefits.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 17, 2026

Source topic or question: Acton–Pepper Shared Ticket Priorities

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My administration will introduce a property tax spike rebate for Ohio homeowners struggling with high property tax increases.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Standing Up for Workers

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I’ll combat the constant SB 5- style efforts to attack our unions and collective bargaining rights , and I will use the Commerce Department and other offices to ensure that employers follow collective bargaining laws, crack down on wage theft, worker misclassification, and other abuses that deprive workers of their hard-earned wages. I will always be a steadfast pro-union, pro-worker Governor.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: CONTACT: [email protected]

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“I am proud to select David Pepper as my Lieutenant Governor. We both share a lifelong commitment to fighting for Ohio’s working families and making our state a more affordable place to live for all of us. David is an innovative and pragmatic leader who has been laser focused on delivering for Ohioans for his entire career, from reducing the property tax rate for Cincinnatians to tackling foreclosures during the 2008 recession,” said Amy Acton. “I am thrilled to have David by my side in the fight to lower costs, tackle corruption and special interests, and ensure that every Ohio family can thrive and enjoy the quality of life we all deserve.”

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Acton–Pepper Shared Ticket Priorities

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Homeowners with household incomes below $132,000 who pay property taxes on homes valued at or below $350,000 would be eligible for a rebate of up to $1,000 when their property tax bill has increased more than 4% over the prior year.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Acton–Pepper Shared Ticket Priorities

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As governor, I will expand the Homestead Exemption so more of Ohio’s seniors are eligible for property tax relief.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Reducing Costs for Ohio Families

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It includes an Earned Income Credit that will support up to 775,000 working families, reward Ohioans’ hard work, and lift families out of poverty. I will also fight for a child tax credit of $1,000 a year for children aged 0-6 and $500 for children aged 7-18 for families making up to $85,000 in annual income, which would help ease the burden for more than 1.4 million children and their families.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Acton–Pepper Shared Ticket Priorities

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I will raise the cap on the household income eligibility of Ohio’s seniors to $50,000, which will ease the burden for an additional 55,000 homeowners.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Data Centers

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Says data centers can strain infrastructure, water, farmland, and local control, and criticizes special tax incentives for them; the cited page names no proposed limit on incentives.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 23, 2026

Source topic or question: Property Taxes

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We are in favor of the end property tax amendment. We prefer to see local consumption based funding. We can balance the budget and eliminate corporate welfare for the larger institutions saving a ton of money for Ohioans.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 23, 2026

Source topic or question: Local Revenue

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Replace local property taxes with consumption-based local funding.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 23, 2026

Source topic or question: Property Taxes

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Support the proposed Ohio constitutional amendment to end property taxes.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 23, 2026

Source topic or question: Unity Over Division

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Ohioans-First Data Center PledgeFree Electricity, Lower Property Taxes & Protecting Our Environment

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Ramaswamy–McColley Shared Ticket Platform

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Put More Money in Your PocketLower Taxes, Lower Energy Bills, Greater Opportunity

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohioans-First Data Center Pledge

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Free Electricity, Lower Property Taxes & Protecting Our Environment

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Lower Taxes, Lower Energy Bills, Greater Opportunity

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Lower Taxes, Lower Energy Bills, Greater Opportunity

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Lower Property Taxes.Real Relief for Ohio Families.

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Lower Property Taxes.Real Relief for Ohio Families.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Lower Taxes So Families Can Build Their Future in Our State

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Lower Taxes So Families Can Build Their Future in Our State

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Vivek's Plan:Roll Back Property Taxes

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Lower property tax bills for homeowners

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 19, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Below are the simple proposals for the reform of Ohio’s tax system to better meet the conditions for an optimal tax system outlined above.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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It is the position of this campaign that any system of taxation should be broad based, consistent in its application, and simple in its design. It should prize efficiency and balancing revenue with expenditures. The most efficient, least distorting taxes should be used first and only new taxes applied when reasonable After these considerations have been met, it can also be used in a limited capacity for a more equitable and socially desirable flow of capital. It must be done sparingly so as not to complicate the tax code and to prevent special interests from securing themselves improper or undesirable benefits.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Housing, Land Use, and Zoning+

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The value of land in any location is overwhelmingly a product of what surrounds it, the street grid, the transit access, the proximity to employers and amenities, not of anything the landowner did. The landvalue tax captures this appropriately, ensuring that the community which created the value of the land also captures a share of it. What a landowner builds on that land is their own investment, and should not be taxed away. Our goal is to encourage building and improvement, not punish it like a property tax does. And we want to discourage vacant lots and buildings left to rot, not reward it like a property tax does.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Eliminate the Commercial Activity Tax.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Nothing will replace this tax. Businesses and entrepreneurs will be encouraged to invest and reinvest in Ohio by eliminating this tax.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: An Integrated Educational Ladder+

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We will introduce universal pre-K administered directly through the public school system. Early childhood education has among the strongest returns of any public investment; we will not leave it to chance or household income.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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The Commercial Activities Tax, which is Ohio’s tax on businesses, will be eliminated. It is an incredibly inefficient and difficult to administer tax that provides only modest revenue while discouraging businesses and entrepreneurship in Ohio.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ending Corruption, Restoring Trust

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The greatest threat to Ohio is corruption. Corruption which robs Ohioans of their tax dollars, which denies Ohio the proper investments, and which degrades trust in government and each other. We will implement immediately the most severe crackdown on corruption this state and this country have ever seen. At the state and local level we will expose conflicts of interest, bribery, and any other dirty dealing. We will instill a sense of pride and civic duty in our government, in the police, in the bureaucracy. We will recruit to our ticket an Auditor, a Secretary of State, and Attorney General that will hold politicians and government accountable, expose wrongdoing, and prosecute accordingly. Transparency will be the default. The culture of pay-to-play politics and government will be put to an end. And we will work tirelessly to earn the trust of the public once again.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Statewide Transit Network+

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The third layer is local transit within cities: bus networks, light rail where density and ridership support it, and demand-responsive services for lower-density areas. We will fund local transit systems directly at the state level, helping municipalities that cannot sustain quality service on their own tax base, and we will require minimum service standards in exchange. This will be combined with investments in biking and walking paths. Once people arrive at a city, they need to easily get around it.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Taxation is a necessary component of government. It is both a primary source of revenue to provide for the government services and investment we all rely upon and a tool for managing and correcting the market. It has other uses as well, many policymakers and voters like to imagine it as a weapon of punishment or righteousness; but we’ll stick to necessary revenue and market efficiency.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Ohio will impose a tax on inheritances between $750,000 and $1.5 million of 2%; 5% on amounts above $1.5 million.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Taxes are not ideological. Turning taxation into a partisan issue with one party being assiduously anti-tax (with no plan for balancing budgets aside from cutting government functions to nothing) and one party being pro-tax though usually limiting its ambitions to only the high earners and corporations (which simply do not offer a large enough tax base to cover even the more modest of their grand designs) is a recipe for a disastrous system of taxation.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Ohio will raise the severance tax to 4% of the market value at the point of extraction on oil and natural gas. This remains well below other producing states but is a significant increase for Ohio.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Restore the inheritance tax.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Ohio will eliminate Property Taxes. Ohio will adopt a Land Value Tax. This transition will happen over the course of 4 years.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Ohio Tax Plan

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Many of the services property taxes currently fund will be more directly funded by the state under our plan, requiring significantly less tax collected by localities and more tax collected by the state. As such some of the Land Value Tax will go to the state.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: The Ohio Vision

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Most cities in Ohio and the United States are badly managed. Horribly managed. And underinvested. Many people are to blame. Many have lost population and tax base over decades of deindustrialization. But if you want to see prosperity at the state or national level you have to make the places where people actually live and work and learn and grow and create, actually work, actually safe, actually desirable.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Create an Independent Commission on Taxation for implementation.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Eliminate child poverty with $2,000–$6,000/year for families below the poverty line.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Infrastructure, Transport, and the Physical Economy+

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Eliminate the property tax in Ohio and transition to a Land Value Tax Encourages building Penalizes absent landlords, vacant lots, and decaying buildings

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Source topic or question: A Message from Vivek

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Today I am announcing my policy pledge to Ohioans on data centers. If a data center is built in your community, then (i) you will no longer have to pay for your home’s electricity, (ii) you will pay lower property taxes, and (iii) the data center will be required to abide by all air and water quality standards without exception, and we will take the necessary steps to protect Ohio’s fertile farmland. If any one of these three conditions is not met, the data center won’t be built. Period. I will work with Ohio’s state legislature to codify these commitments into law immediately after I assume office.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Lower Taxes So Families Can Build Their Future in Our State

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Phase out the state income tax—starting with eliminating capital gains taxes—so every Ohioan keeps more of what they earn.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: A Message from Vivek

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In addition to providing free electricity for local residents, my plan would also deliver property tax relief to Ohioans within the benefit zone – by prohibiting property tax abatements for future data centers and creating a property tax rebate for Ohio homeowners. That is, data centers would be required to pay 100% of their property taxes without abatements, and these property tax revenues would directly fund property tax rebates for homeowners. This helps deliver major property tax relief for Ohio families without hurting local police, schools, or firemen – and may become essential with a looming ballot initiative to eliminate property taxes expected in 2027.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Vivek's Plan:Roll Back Property Taxes

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Vivek Ramaswamy will deliver immediate relief by rolling back property tax levels to where they were before the end of the Covid pandemic.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Vivek's Plan:Roll Back Property Taxes

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Lower property tax bills for homeowners

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: A Message from Vivek

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That means supporting economic growth for Ohio’s workers, while ensuring that we do it in a way that helps all Ohioans. In sum, my administration will eliminate electricity costs and reduce property taxes for homeowners, while also ensuring that all environmental laws are respected and that farmland is preserved. No data center will be built in Ohio without actualizing these commitments. I look forward to signing legislation in early 2027 to turn this vision into reality.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026

Source topic or question: Jobs and the Economy

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Eric Conroy believes it’s time to prioritize Ohio’s economy again, starting with what benefits the people. As a common-sense conservative, Eric will fight to control inflation by cutting wasteful spending, restoring American energy independence to reduce fuel costs, and removing red tape that suppresses small business growth. He’ll support pro-growth policies that empower small businesses, lower taxes for middle-class families, and invest in workforce development so every Ohioan has a fair chance to succeed. Unlike his opponent, Eric will never vote to put Washington special interests ahead of hardworking families in Cincinnati and across the First District.

Statement date not recorded · Profile reviewed Sep 16, 2026