(a) To provide funds for the purposes of: (1) General municipal operations, (2) Acquisition and maintenance of both personal and real property for the use or benefit of the City, (3) Extension, enlargement, maintenance and improvement of municipal services and facilities, (4) Capital improvements in and of the City, and (5) For the promotion of economic development in and for the City, there is hereby levied a tax at the rate of one percent (1%) upon all the following through June 30, 2009. Effective July 1, 2009, on and after said date, there is hereby levied a tax at the rate of one and three-tenths percent (1.3%) upon all of the following:
(1) All salaries, wages, and other compensation and net profits earned or received by resident individuals;
(2) All salaries, wages, and other compensation and net profits earned or received by non-resident individuals for, or derived from, or as a result of, work done, services rendered and business conducted in the City;
(3) All net profits attributable to the City earned by all resident and nonresident unincorporated businesses, professions and other activities for, or derived from, work done, rentals or services performed, and business or other activities conducted in the City;
(4) The entire portion of the distributive share of all net profits, not otherwise attributable to the City, earned by a resident, individual, resident owner of an unincorporated business entity, or resident partner for, or derived from, work done, rentals or services performed, and business or other activities conducted outside the City, and not otherwise lawfully levied against by another municipality;
(5) The entire portion of the distributive share of all net profits, not otherwise attributable to the City, earned by a non-resident individual, non-resident owner of an unincorporated business activity, or non-resident partner for, or derived from, work done, rentals or services performed, and business or other activities conducted in the City and not levied against the unincorporated business entity itself;
(6) All net profits attributable to the City earned by corporations for, or derived from, work done, rentals or services performed, and business or other activities conducted in the City;
(7) All net profits earned by fiduciaries of resident individuals for, or derived from, business conducted;
(8) All net profits attributable to the City earned by fiduciaries of non-resident individuals for, or derived from, business conducted in the City; and
(9) The gross proceeds earned or derived from gaming, wagering, lotteries, including but not limited to the Ohio State Lottery, or lotteries where the State of Ohio is a part thereof, or games or schemes of chance, by residents of the City; and/or, the gross proceeds earned or derived from gaming, wagering, lotteries, or games or schemes of chance, when any part of the activity is engaged into or conducted in the City, by nonresidents, are all subject to the City tax to the same extent includable on the recipient’s federal tax return, whether or not the recipient is required to file a federal tax return and whether or not the recipient pays federal income tax on the gross proceeds, except that it shall not be taxed as a business income unless the person subject to this tax has a federal gamblers’ permit effective during the tax year in which income from gaming, wagering, lotteries or schemes or games of chance is received.
(b) The portion of the net profits attributable to the City of a taxpayer doing work, rendering services or conducting business both within and outside the City shall be determined in the same proportion as the average ratio of the following:
(1) The average original cost of the real and tangible personal property owned or used by the taxpayer in the business in the City during the taxable period to the average original cost of all real and tangible personal property owned or used by the taxpayer in the business during the same period, wherever situated. As used in this paragraph, real property shall include property rented or leased by the taxpayer and the value of such property shall be determined by multiplying the annual rental thereon by eight (8);
(2) Salaries, wages and other compensation paid during the taxable period to persons employed in the business and salespeople for work done or services rendered in the City to compensation paid during the same period to persons employed in the business and salespeople, wherever their work is done or their services are rendered;
(3) Gross receipts of the business during the taxable period from sales made and services rendered in the City to gross receipts of the business during the same period from sales and services, wherever made or rendered.
If the foregoing allocation formula does not produce an equitable result, another basis may, under uniform regulations, be substituted so as to produce such result.
(c) As used in subsection (b) hereof, “sales made in the City” means:
(1) All sales of tangible personal property which is delivered within the City regardless of where title passes if shipped or delivered from stock of goods within the City;
(2) All sales of tangible personal property which is delivered within the City regardless of where title passes even though transported from a point outside the City if the taxpayer is regularly engaged through its own employees and salespeople in the solicitation or promotion of sales within the City and the sales result from such solicitation or promotion;
(3) All sales of tangible personal property which is shipped from a place within the City to purchasers outside the City regardless of where title passes if the taxpayer is not, through its own employees and salespeople regularly engaged in the solicitation or promotion of sales at the place where delivery is made.
(Ord. 135-04. Passed 12-6-04.)