Thursday, February 26, 2009
COLUMBUS — Drive to the outlet mall in Grove City, Pa., on any given day and you’ll probably find cars with Ohio license plates parked in the lot.
The reason, Bill Johnson believes, is obvious: Ohio’s neighbor to the east doesn’t charge sales tax on clothing. So when back-to-school shoppers and others from Mahoning, Columbiana and surrounding counties want to stretch their dollars, they make the trek to Pennsylvania.
Johnson wants to change that, via a sales tax reform package that he’d like lawmakers to pass — maybe even include in the biennial budget currently being debated in the Ohio House.
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