Dayton-area state Sen. Niraj Antani, the author of a bill that legalized Ohio sports betting in 2022, proposes cutting the sports gaming tax rate back to its original 10% after the state bumped it to 20% last year.
Antani, a Miami Twp. Republican, submitted written testimony to the Senate Finance Committee in lieu of an in-person testimony Tuesday arguing that Ohio made a mistake when it hiked its sports gaming tax rate in 2023.
“The 20% rate makes us the 6th highest out of the 38 states with sports betting. The lowest in the country are Iowa and Nevada, three times lower than our rate,” Antani wrote in support of his Senate Bill 190. “Our border states, Kentucky, Michigan Indiana and West Virginia, now all have significantly lower tax rates. This puts us at a significant regional and national disadvantage.”
