....Marathon Petroleum will get a 75 percent, 15-year job retention tax credit from the state to keep its 1,650 employees in Findlay and a 60 percent, 10-year job creation tax credit the company says will allow it to hire 100 new employees.
The company also will benefit from an interpretation of Ohio's commercial activity tax included in the state's transportation budget exempting exchanges or transfers of gasoline from the tax.
Unlike some similar, previous company announcements Kasich took part in -- as with American Greetings and Bob Evans -- Kasich did not insist Marathon Petroleum would've moved out of Findlay if not for the state's tax help......
How interesting! Poligraft shows the following connection between Marathon Oil and the Kasich-Taylor campaign of 2010:
Aggregated Contributions
Represents total campaign contributions from an organization's employees and/or its PAC.
- Marathon Oil has aggregated $18,700 to KASICH, JOHN & TAYLOR, MARY
Hmmmm. Do you get tax credits if you've contributed to the Kasich-Taylor campaign? I'm just asking the question!
If you recall, American Greetings got a tax break (see American Greetings news release), and their employees contributed to the Kasich campaign, according to Poligraft:
Aggregated Contributions
Represents total campaign contributions from an organization's employees and/or its PAC.
- American Greetings Corp has aggregated $2,000 to John R. Kasich
In the case of Bob Evans, the Ohio Secretary of State campaign finance website reports that Daniel Evans gave $500 in July 2010 to Kasich for Ohio campaign. There might be more donations out there. I'll let you know when I find them.