2013 Group Rating Annual Safety Training
BWC Announces Mandatory Group Sponsor Training DatesAs a group-experience or group-retrospective rating program sponsor for the January 1, 2013 public rating year or July 1, 2013 private rating year, your…
Criminal Enterprise Fraud Scheme to Interfere With Retail Stores’ Satellite Communications
MIRA received a bulletin from the Michigan State Police through the Michigan Consumer Protection Division of the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development regarding the “tinfoil on the satellite…
Workers’ Comp rewarding employers through rebates
Thousands of Ohio employers are receiving more than $9.4 million in rebates from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation for participating in one of 78 safety councils sponsored by the…
Prospective Rating Plan Announced
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently approved some changes concerning the way they collect premium from businesses. Currently, companies pay workers’ compensation premium six-months in arrears. In other…
Tobacco News
Ohio Attorney General, Mike Dewine is pushing Kroger, Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid, Walgreens and other retailers with Pharmacies to voluntarily stop selling all tobacco products and follow the lead of CVS (Caremark)…
Commercial Activity Tax & Petroleum Activity Tax: New CAT Exclusion and Replacement Tax
Ohio petroleum retailers must remember that the Petroleum Activity Tax goes into effect July 1, 2014, at which time your retail sales of motor fuel can be deducted from your…
Help fight tobacco tax increases and a new tax on e-cigarettes
Ohio legislators are considering an increase on the states cigarette excise tax by 48%, to $18.50 per carton, over the next 2 years. Enactment of a $6.00 per carton increase…
Ohio CATax Minimum Annual Fee Rate – Clarification
There seems to be confusion regarding revisions to the Commercial Activity Tax (CATax) minimum annual fee rate for quarterly returns due May 10th, 2014. The CATax rate remains 0.26% on…
Xerox Data Center Maintenance on June 22
The Xerox Data Center Facilities will perform an upgrade to the Sprint Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) circuits at the Dallas Data Center, which supports all EBT card service transaction processing…