Woman With $1.16 Tax Bill Faces $4K Fine

[PrincessPerky]

LOVELAND, Ohio (AP) - A woman who hasn't paid a $1.16 income tax bill to this Cincinnati suburb faces up to 18 months in jail and $4,000 in fines.

City officials say Deborah Combs hasn't filed city income tax returns for five years.

Combs says she has been mostly unemployed since 2000 and didn't realize she had to file the returns until the city notified her in February about the violation.

By that time, Combs owed $200 in late fees - $50 for each year she didn't file a return....full story here

[marglo]

CITY income tax? I have only heard of State and Federal!

[cercis]

Some cities have this Marglo. I only know because at one job the payroll was processed through ADP (or a similar company) and we had to answer a questionaire that included "Is there a city income tax to be withheld?" We were all confused, but the HR person told us that it is fairly rare and did not apply to us.

[sweeps]

Speaking of city income taxes, here is a story from a couple years ago. South Euclid, Ohio charges taxes on income. Unfortunately it missed out on $1.4 million in tax revenue because its charter did not include lottery winners in its list of taxable incomes.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/0...ottery.tax.ap/

[Bluezy]

Remind me not to move to the State of Ohio.

[jeffrey]

UPDATE

City officials have decided to drop criminal charges against a woman who hasn't paid a $1.16 income tax bill.

Deborah Combs, 51, had pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges of failure to file city tax returns and not paying late fees. She faced up to $4,000 in fines and up to 18 months in jail if convicted.

But Mayor Brad Greenberg said Friday it's not worth spending the thousands of dollars in legal fees prosecuting the case...rest of story