New working group to tackle property tax relief

Ohio's governor, lawmakers, and grassroots organizers are all wrestling over property tax reform

Joy Broedling speaking to Carol McIntosh about the property tax repeal petition. (Photo by Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal.)Earlier this week, Ohio lawmakers scrapped summer plans to take action on property taxes. “We really need to do something,” State Rep. Bill Roemer, R-Richfield insisted. “We need to fix property taxes in Ohio.” The state’s tax rates rank 8th in the country, he argued, ahead of New York, California and Florida, not to menti…

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New working group to tackle property tax relief

he governor’s new working group is expected to give concrete proposals by late September that would provide property tax relief for Ohioans.