Gov. Mike DeWine has approved a correction to the biennium budget bill that would have possibly cut roughly 11,000 Homestead exemption recipients out of the “piggyback” benefit. State lawmakers gave ...

Butler County commissioners approved a $20 million property tax break for residents next year. The county is the first in Ohio to enact a new state program doubling the Homestead property tax ...

Ohio is also a home rule state, which means some exemptions, like tax abatements for new development, are decided locally. Others are simply a matter of circumstance. Franklin County, home to the ...

LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio — The Lucas County Auditor's Office is helping the area's older population reduce their property taxes through the state's homestead exemption program. Auditor Katie Moline is ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The dust is now settling on a messy Lucas County home revaluation process. Now there is an effort underway to make sure residents know about some money-saving credits that can be ...

ELYRIA, Ohio — Lorain County is taking a new step to ease the financial burden of rising property taxes with a resolution providing property tax relief to qualifying seniors, veterans and disabled ...

Homestead exemptions offer exceptions to financial claims on your primary residence. Homeowners filing for bankruptcy may be able to use a homestead exemption to shield the home’s equity from ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — From the sprawling campus of Cleveland Clinic to the smallest rural church, from gleaming office towers with abatements to rental houses with homeowner credits, millions of acres in ...