Taxing buildings less and land more in Ohio would encourage development such as more housing, and most of the benefits would flow to people who need them most, like renters in low-income neighborhoods.
Ohio Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy is telling voters he’ll roll property taxes back to “levels where they were before the end of the Covid pandemic.”
Late last week, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost determined organizers aiming to abolish property taxes had provided a “fair and truthful” summary of their proposed constitutional amendment. The next step is for the state ballot board to determine whether the proposal includes a single constitutional amendment or multiple amendments. The board has ten days to make that determination.
State Reps. Adam Bird (R-New Richmond) and Thomas Hall (R- Madison Twp.) Tuesday introduced legislation that will modify the procedures used by the Tax Commissioner to conduct property tax sales assessment ratio studies.
