Health & Fitness
Ohio picks new charity ‘worthy’ for tax form check-off
By Maggie Thurber | for Ohio Watchdog
As if filing your taxes wasn’t already complicated enough, now you’ll have a new option in Ohio: whether to donate some or all of your refund to theBreast and Cervical Cancer Project.
Line 25 of the IT 1040 Individual Income Tax formwill add the BCCP option for the 2014 tax year. It joins the current check-offs for the Natural Areas and Preserves Fund, the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Fund, the Military Injury Relief Fund and the Ohio Historical Society.
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H.B. 112 added the new item, but also set a limit of no more than six options at any given time, and limits any future check-off to a two-year time period. It also mandates dropping any fund that receives less than $150,000 for two years in a row.
Per Ohio Revised Code, check-offs are only to be used to raise money for certain state agencies, though the General Assembly made an exception for the Ohio Historical Society, a nonprofit organization funded in part by the state.