The city of Beavercreek is doing something many communities have talked about for years but rarely acted upon: rethinking how it taxes its residents. For decades, Beavercreek has been an outlier in the region. The city is one of the few sizable cities in Ohio that never adopted a municipal income tax, relying almost entirely on property taxes to fund services. Note, most townships in Ohio rely solely on property taxes for revenue. However, in Beavercreek it was not by acciden

The Ohio property tax debates are red hot now. With the debate raging, homeowners are comparing increases, talking about rising property values for their 2027 tax bills and questioning whether taxes are getting too high. This debate has missed a larger reality: property taxes don’t affect only homeowners. Across Ohio, property taxes greatly impact the cost of running a business, influence rent rates and ripple through the entire local economy. Ohio’s effective property tax ra

On a quiet street in Dayton, a retired couple opens the mail and finds the familiar envelope from the county treasurer. The house is paid off. The mortgage is long gone. They’ve lived there for 30 years, but the tax bill keeps coming. It’s a scene playing out across the Miami Valley from Springfield to Middletown, in neighborhoods where people thought they had financial security. And it helps explain why an idea that once sounded radical is now getting nods and applause: get

For far too many Ohio homeowners, property tax season no longer feels like a routine civic obligation but rather a financial squeeze tightening year after year. This frustration is grounded in real numbers that should be concerning. According to the Tax Foundation, Ohio’s effective property tax rate, the amount paid annually as a percentage of owner-occupied housing value, stands at 1.31%, placing the Buckeye state among the highest property tax rates in the country. Ohio ran

The American Dream and homeownership have been linked for generations. From Eaton to Xenia, Springboro to Troy, each surrounding community and county, families are laying down roots, raising children and investing in places they have known for generations. Recent years have seen homeowners and commercial property owners facing a new, growing reality: growing property taxes that are uncoupled from their ability to pay. All someone has to do is go online to your Auditor’s Websi