As county auditors across Ohio urge state lawmakers to give homeowners property tax relief, we are speaking to some of our local representatives to see if they’re doing anything about it.
There are four recommendations from the County Auditors Association of Ohio. They include: expanding the homestead program, eliminating the non-business credit and expanding the owner occupancy credit, limiting the growth in revenue received by school districts due to reappraisal changes, and creating a menu of targeted relief.
But Montgomery County Auditor Karl Keith said the Ohio Legislature’s committee that looked at property tax laws and recommendations said “they really decided to do nothing, they really had no recommendations.”…