Senate President Rob McColley and Finance Chairman Jerry Cirino Statement on Governor's Veto Message

We appreciate the governor’s support of our significant income tax reform that reduces the tax burden on Ohioans by moving to a single flat income tax bracket.

Yet it is puzzling that at a time when Ohioans are demanding a reduction in their property tax burden, the governor vetoed all of the General Assembly's reforms, which would have contained the rate of growth of property tax across the state, added more accountability to local taxing subdivisions, and would have created more ballot transparency to levies.

These are kitchen table issues that hard working families understand, and the General Assembly needs to strongly consider acting on their behalf to implement these vital changes that would return the property tax system to its cost controlled guardrails as originally intended.