Last year 90 people sought relief, and so far Nix’s office has received a total of 54 but six of them are from tax years 20. Some of those however were businesses who were able to seek relief due to COVID-19. Everyone else can only appeal last year by the end of the next week.Īfter the last reappraisal 761 people filed appeals in 2018 and 889 issued challenges in 2021 to the 2020 valuation review. Stein said people in the districts impacted by the 2020 value dispute can appeal both 20 values. “Unless we want to give the taxpayers the ability to appeal, only the increased amount for 20 can be appealed.” “This is all uncharted territory, nobody’s ever done this before, so there was no straight ORC code that said yes or no that you could do it,” Stein said previously. Stein said since Reynolds’ appeal was the first ever, they sought advise from the prosecutor’s office. Property owners by law have until March 31 the following year to contest their reassessment to the BoR. The auditors office was concerned the prolonged appeals process with the state would foreclose rights of property owners to issue a challenge. That meant 48,999 taxpayers in Hamilton and Fairfield and West Chester townships saw tax bill adjustments totaling $6.1 million.ĭisgruntled homeowners have always been able to appeal revised values - but not tax bills -to the county’s Board of Revisions - a panel consisting of representatives from the auditor, commissioners’ and treasurer’s offices. Reynolds lost his appeal over the 2020 reevaluation last fall so tax bills for 20 had to be recalculated for residential and agricultural properties Reynolds challenged in Fairfield, Hamilton and Fairfield and West Chester townships, and the adjustments were on the first half tax bills. The combined impact was roughly $84 per $100,000 in home value. With the uncertain post-COVID economy, the commissioners declined to extend the $18.5 million property tax holiday and the Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities also canceled their tax break. and the fallout from Reynolds’ two-year war with the state. Fairfield City Schools came in second with $32.7 million and the smallest first half payment was $608 to tiny Jacksonburg.Ī number of things combined to create the higher tax bills, the Butler County commissioners and Board of Developmental Disabilities erased temporary tax breaks, new tax levies in Fairfield and Madison Twp. Last year the district culled $73 million in the first half collection. The distribution amounts to the various taxing districts won’t be ready until next week but the Lakota Schools collect the most in the property taxes by far. Rogers, who is a realtor, was surprised to hear the state might mandate such a large increase. Real Estate Director Mike Stein said for the triennial reassessment, “we basically review by neighborhoods in the county, we use the sales data as we do for the annual review and the state will come back and calculate ratios and averages, and the first half of 2022 the ratios came back at a 24% increase.”Ĭommissioner T.C. Her office is reevaluating the properties based on local sales information so they can ensure the numbers are fair within the county. She said they haven’t been ordered to increase values by that much yet, but based on what the state has sent so far, it appears that is what will be mandated for the county as whole. We calculate our own values but they override our values, I think our job here is to be fair and equitable among the county, among all the (taxing) districts.” “We won’t be doing the appeal because we know where that ends up, we know who wins that battle. “The state is telling us we’re going to be raising them again 24%,” Nix said. Former Auditor Roger Reynolds fought and lost his appeal of that increase. During the state-mandated 2020 reappraisal all 165,000 Butler County parcels were reassessed and the state ordered an average 20% increase.
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