In Ohio, some professional services are taxable. For instance, though interior design and management consulting are not taxable, IT services and payroll services are.
8 Are warranties, maintenance agreements, or service contracts subject to the sales tax? Basically, yes. However, warranties, extended warranties, maintenance agreements or service contracts covering exempt equipment would also be exempt.
Governor DeWine recently signed Ohio's biennium budget, Am. Sub. H.B. 110, which repealed the sales and use tax on employment services and employment placement services. As such, employment services and employment placement services are no longer taxable in Ohio beginning on October 1, 2021.
Effective Oct. 1, 2021, Ohio will stop imposing sales and use tax on employment and employee placement services. Our state and local tax experts discuss what this means for you. For almost three decades, Ohio has been one of the only states in the country to impose sales and use tax on employment services.
Many services are subject to Ohio's 5.75% sales tax rate: Rental of hotel rooms or similar sleeping accommodations for less than 30 days by establishments with five or more sleeping rooms. Provision of landscaping or lawn care service, if annual sales of this service equal or exceed $5,000.