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Ohio school officials: boosting property taxes is all about tax fairness

By Maggie Thurber | For Ohio Watchdog

As budgets have tightened, Ohio school boards are filing more Board of Revision complaints, challenging the property tax valuations in their districts in an effort to create short-term tax gains.

It’s all about fairness, according to testimony presented at theSenate Ways and Means Committee hearing Tuesday.

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The schools boards don’t like S.B. 52, which would limit the right to file property tax complaints to the property owner or the owner’s agent, claiming it would make some property owners pay more in taxes than they should.

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