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Ohio House lawmakers approved a pair of property tax measures Wednesday. The bills would give little known county boards greater oversight powers and get into the weeds of Ohio’s byzantine system for classifying taxes and calculating reductions.
At a moment when many Ohioans are frustrated enough to put property tax abolition to a vote, the proposals offer a series of changes likely to bring down property taxes in the short term and rein in future increases…