A judgment has been levied against OH-1 Democrat nominee Greg Landsman for failure to pay his taxes on March 2.
Landsman, the sole owner of real estate company Landsman & Associates, received the judgment for failure to pay taxes related to his business.
On March 2, a tax judgment was rendered to Landsman & Associates for failure to pay $656.96.
As a candidate for and a member of the Cincinnati City Council, Landsman has repeatedly supported tax increases for others.
In 2017, when Mayor John Cranley “proposed a 0.5 percent county sales tax” for public transportation, Landsman was quoted in The Cincinnati Enquirer as saying, “I’d much prefer a full-cent sales tax, so long as there is a real vision and plan. If it costs a half-cent, it costs a half-cent. If it costs a full-cent, it costs a full-cent. If it costs something in between, it costs something in between. But I bet a real, transformative plan it will cost more (than Cranley’s proposal).”
In 2018, Landsman supported raising the earnings tax, saying to The Cincinnati Enquirer, “it’s time council considers raising the earnings tax,” and “It’s time to bring in new revenue.”
In June 2018, the Cincinnati City Council “approved a whopping seven tax or fee increases.”
Landsman voted to increase taxes or fees for stormwater, building and water inspections, admissions tax, commercial waste hauling, parking, and the billboard tax as part of that approval.
In 2019, Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld proposed a plan to replace a .3 percent earnings tax with a sales tax. Landsman supported Sittenfeld’s plan, along with a 1 percent sales tax.
It was additionally reported that Landsman said more tax and fee increases may be necessary.
The Ohio Star previously reported that Landsman additionally opposed anti-corruption legislation in 2021 and later touted Cincinnati’s Office of Ethics and Good Government, saying that “we needed to do everything in our power to restore public trust” after a scandal involving text messages.
In September 2021, Landsman declared his opposition to a ballot measure creating an amendment to the city charter that was characterized by him and in the press as allowing for individual city employees to be liable “for some violations of open meetings and public records law violations.”
The actual text of the ballot measure that Landsman opposed read that the amendment would “provide that the Mayor and members of Council are personally liable for violations of state law regarding open meetings or public records where the violation was to avoid or circumvent those laws or was purposeful, knowing, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner.”
That amendment would also allow for the recall of the mayor and make the Cincinnati City Council members’ salaries “equal to the median household income for the city.”
Landsman is slated to face off with incumbent Republican Ohio U.S. Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH-1) in the November general election.
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Aaron Gulbransen is a reporter at The Ohio Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected]. Follow Aaron on GETTR, Twitter, Truth Social, and Parler.
Photo “Greg Landsman” by the City of Cincinnati.
