Property taxes are frequently the largest non-productive expense incurred by property owners, and proactive management of this expense may result in increased profitability. Now is the time to review your tax assessments to make sure that each property is valued appropriately and that you are paying your fair share, and only your fair share, of the property tax burden.
All tax year 2018 complaints must be filed on or before April 1, 2019 with the county boards of revision to contest the property tax valuations. The tax year 2018 values have an assessment date of January 1, 2018 and serve as the basis for property tax bills paid in 2019. For tax year 2018, 24 of Ohio’s 88 counties were required to conduct either a full reappraisal of property values or an update of property values. While property tax values can be challenged in any county for tax year 2018, the following counties are those required to reappraise or update the tax values as of January 1, 2018:
Reappraisal Counties | Update Counties | |
Belmont Brown Crawford Cuyahoga Erie Fayette Highland Huron Jefferson Lake |
Lorain Lucas Morgan Muskingum Ottawa Portage Stark Warren Williams |
Allen Coshocton Guernsey Sandusky Vinton |
Two Vorys attorneys, Nicholas Ray and Andrew DeBord, recently presented a short 30-minute webinar for Ohio Council of Retail Merchants members on this topic.