![]() ![]() If the measure can’t be kept off the ballot, Savko said he will consider annexing to Columbus, which could provide more services for its 2.5 percent tax. “He has every right to go through that process,” township Trustee Chet Chaney said of Savko. Shuler, said he is checking into whether the township followed the law in setting up the income tax. Savko said he’s fighting for his 25 employees who, he thinks, would have to pay the income tax and “already are taxed to death."Īs for his construction company, other than a “spectacular police department, we get nothing out of the township and need nothing.” He said the company pays the township $99,000 in property taxes and would pay a little more to help the township out. “This is turning out to be nothing but a money grab,” said Martin Savko Sr., chairman of Nikolas Savko and Sons Inc. One business owner said he is talking to lawyers about ways to keep the measure off the ballot. The same tax would be assessed on the net profits of corporations in the zones. Townships have no such authority on their own. ![]() Joint economic-development zones allow townships to use the taxing authority of a municipality - Worthington in Perry Township’s case - to levy the tax. The tax would be assessed on employees of more than two dozen businesses in designated “joint economic-development zones.” The township filed with the Franklin County Board of Elections yesterday to put a 2.5 percent tax on the May 6 ballot. Perry Township’s effort to impose an income tax on some workers in the township could face a legal challenge.
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