Ohio spent 2025 building the biggest overhaul of its property tax system in decades, and it still didn’t touch the part that matters most, a gap that gets harder to call an accident the longer you look at it.
Five companion bills took effect between December 2025 and March 2026, adjusting how fast valuations can grow, how the twenty-mill floor gets calculated, and who qualifies for a homestead exemption. Lawmakers called it historic.
A separate citizen campaign is pushing to put outright abolition of property taxes on the ballot this year. Both efforts are responding to the same anger, and neither one asks where a meaningful share of the money has been going for years…