"After years of litigation, a former National City executive has prevailed in a hard fought tax dispute with the city of Cleveland.... The case provides that a Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP) must be excluded from the Cleveland municipal income tax as a 'pension' benefit. The ruling buttresses a 2014 Franklin County Court of Appeals decision that reached the same result in a dispute between the same taxpayer and the city of Shaker Heights. The cases could have implications for taxpayers with SERP income across the state." [MacDonald v. Cleveland Income Tax Bd. of Review, No. 2016-0778 (Ohio Sept. 26, 2017; unpub.)  MORE >>