Lawmakers studying frack tax meet for first time

The 2020 Tax Policy Study Commission will meet this morning for the first time, 21 days after its deadline to produce a recommendation to the House and Senate on a new severance tax for shale fracking. The seven-member commission is tasked with looking at the entire state tax code and eventually recommending changes to how Ohio funds governmental services. But the two-year budget passed in June contained specific language ordering the commission to focus first on the long-running debate over inc