Tax Question

This city government is starving for revenue. They will do any and all things to collect it to offset the income lost (and not pursued with any urgency) through payroll/corporate taxes like most competently run towns do. They require each and every citizen to file city taxes whether they earned income or not. They even require a person to file even if their income is not taxable by the city. When you operate a desperate city operation, you develop desperate measures to find every penny you can. Pathetic. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Middletown is one of the few towns that have these requirements. They are also good at developing creative methods to drain the wallets of the people too. I offer the "pavement of your street from your wallet" concept and the new requirement that just surfaced after all these years concerning the septic tank rules and sewer line tap ins in the south end.

I can understand W-2's and the front of the 1040. But (at least in my case) my 1099's are not taxable by the city. The 1040 should be sufficient. My 1099's are none of their damn business.

The state of Ohio does not require it, so state in Ohio would have the authority as it would be unconstitutional. Ohio checks a federal database to cross check, which Middlteonw or any city in Ohio, would also have access to. They do it for one reason---to determine who was claimed on the taxes so they can also put them into a system to start harrassing them, your child's name, and so on. You can go online and put your tax info in efile for Ohio, and have a check return f entitled to one, in two weeks, no W2 copies.