Ohio Grocers Assn. v. Wilkins (2009) (Commercial Activity Tax)
The OSMA joined with other business interests to urge the Ohio Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of Ohio's commercial activity tax as a permitted franchise tax on gross receipts of food sales. The Court issued a favorable decision on September 17, 2009 upholding the constitutionality of the tax. Physicians supported the commercial activity tax as adopted by the General Assembly and had an interest in seeing the tax upheld so that it would continue to apply broadly to all types of businesses at a uniformly low tax rate.