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State laws allow under valuation of low-income housing properties
A prolonged legal battle that gave a huge property tax break to the owners of a lowincome housing development has left Logan County Auditor Michael E. Yoder disenchanted with the current system.
“Since becoming Logan County Auditor in 1995, I have become disheartened with the direction the courts have taken on uniform and equitable real property valuations,” Yoder said, “and the inability of the Ohio General Assembly to make necessary statutory changes. I can no longer carry out my statutory responsibilities.”
He previously announced his plan to resign from office effective June 30 and based his decision, in part, in what he believes is a growing systemic inequity in the treatment of property owners. His current term doesn’t end until March 8.
Yoder spoke about the issue at a recent conference of the County Auditors Association of Ohio. He served as president in 2005 and 2017, the only two-time president in the CAAO’s history.
He encouraged each auditor to spread the news about this inequity with their local communities and share the loss of revenues from such practices.
Read complete story in Thursday’s Examiner.
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