Campbell OKs tax amnesty

By jeanne starmack

starmack@vindy.com

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Campbell is planning a tax-amnesty program that will allow people who are delinquent in their city income taxes to pay them without interest and penalties.

Campbell council passed a resolution last week that allows city finance director Mike Evanson to set up the program with the Regional Income Tax Agency in Youngstown. RITA handles the income-tax collection for Campbell.

The amnesty program is for people who filed their taxes but did not pay them.

Evanson said there will also be a subpoena program for people whose employers reported income but those people didn’t file with RITA. Subpoenas, which cost $8 each, will be mailed to the nonfilers.

The city’s last income- tax-amnesty program, which began in August and ended Nov. 15, 2010, was proclaimed a success by then-finance director Sherman Miles.

Miles said the program brought in just under the projected $45,000. Most of the money came in after Nov. 1, as the program was winding down, he said.

The subpoena program that year brought in $20,000, or $12,000 more than projected.

Evanson said he does not yet know how much income tax is owed to Campbell at this point. He said RITA will have to calculate that figure and let him know.

He said that unlike the last program, which took place at RITA’s offices, this year’s will be at the city building on Tenney Avenue to make it easier for people to get there.

He said the program might start as early as August, but chances are that it will start in September or October.