Ohio Income Amount Exempt from Taxation Amendment (1973)

Ohio Income Amount Exempt from Taxation Amendment
Election date November 6, 1973
Topic Taxes
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Ohio Income Amount Exempt from Taxation Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Ohio on November 6, 1973. It was approved.

A “yes” vote supported allowing for a new amount of income to be exempted from income taxation.

A “no” vote opposed allowing for a new amount of income to be exempted from income taxation.

Election results

Ohio Income Amount Exempt from Taxation Amendment
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		1,299,882	59.55%
No		883,123	40.45%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Income Amount Exempt from Taxation Amendment was as follows:

“

Shall Section 8 of Article XII of the Ohio Constitution be amended to remove the $3,000 limitation on the amount of annual income which may be exempt from taxation and to permit the amount exempted from taxation to be provided for by law?

”

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Ohio Constitution

A 60% vote is required during one legislative session for the Ohio State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 60 votes in the Ohio House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Ohio State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1973 Measures

• 1973 Measures
• Taxes on the ballot
• 1973 legislative sessions

Ohio

• Ohio ballot measures
• Ohio ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• Toledo Blade, "The Blade's Endorsements," November 5, 1973