State leaders discuss tax cuts and benefits for business

YOUNGSTOWN — Through the help of state-operated programs, local company KTSDI LLC has been able to expand.

The Business Resource Network helped company leaders find the resources they needed to grow the staff from one to a dozen and obtain grants for training and safety.

“Those programs are filtering down, and they are coming here,” said Ken Timmings, manager of KTSDI. “I will attest to that.”

Timmings expressed the benefits KTSDI, which works with Original Equipment Manufacturers to provide electronic, hydraulic and mechanical control systems, has reaped through the state programs at a meeting today with business owners, the state tax commissioner, director of the development-services agency and project manager for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The meeting, hosted by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber at the Covelli Centre downtown, promoted the programs the state has for small businesses and Gov. John Kasich’s proposed tax cuts the state says will help small businesses.

The proposal includes the elimination of taxes on businesses with income of up to $2 million annually. A 23 percent income-tax cut for all taxpayers over the next two years also is proposed.

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