Tax Filing Errors Set Brecksville Back $130,000

Two businesses in Brecksville that erroneously overpaid on their taxes a few years ago will each get a big refund check from the city of Brecksville.

The errors — both made by the businesses — were discovered by a recent state audit, and now the city is required pay up.

To the tune of about $138,000.

One business will be refunded $130,000 and the other about $7,000.

Brecksville Finance Director Virginia Price declined to identify the businesses, but based on how businesses file taxes with the state, the error for the larger dollar amount was likely made by a utility company.

“It’s not the kind of letter you like to get in the mail,” she said. “There’s nothing we can do about it. The state collects it, the state audits the returns.”

Price said this is the first time in her more than 10 years as Brecksville’s finance director that the city had to file a refund check.

Since most of the money from income taxes goes into the city’s general fund, that’s where the refund will be drawn from.

On Tuesday, Brecksville City Council OK’d a resolution authorizing the city’s finance department to issue the refunds.