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)…
DetailsCommercial 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…
DetailsHelp 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…
DetailsOhio 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…
DetailsXerox 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…
DetailsBig Changes Coming to Ohio BWC
The Ohio Legislature took the final steps this week to modernize the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, specifically the revision of its billing system. Both the Senate and the House…
DetailsOhio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Changes Its Premium Collection Process
Historically, BWC has billed Ohio employers in arrears or ‘retrospectively’. Employers currently report their actual payroll and pay their premium on a semi-annual basis for the previous six months of…
DetailsPetroleum Activity Tax (PATax) Effective July 1st, 2014 in Ohio
Effective July 1st, 2014 the Petroleum Activity Tax (PATax) goes into effect, in part, replacing the Commercial Activity Tax (CATax) on Motor Fuel Sales. The responsibility to pay the PATax…
DetailsAttention Ohio SNAP/EBT Retailers
The following information was received by SNAP/EBT retailers in Ohio. The basic information regarding the termination of the FREE equipment to process SNAP / EBT sales applies to all participating…
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