Obscene Property Tax Increase By Cuyahoga Democrats Fiscal Office

[Richard Baker]

You probably received your notice from Cuyahoga County Fiscal Office of their delusional and totally baseless assessment and tax increase for your home. They increased the value of my home 36.54 and the lot 24.9 percent in a three-year period.

Don’t bother going to their office, a friend of mine when down in person and ask how they came up with the increase on his property. He was told they didn’t consider his property individually. They simply acted like most accountants, they compared the square footage of his home and applied it homes with the same square footage without regard to the size of lot, location, condition, construction type, etc. and applied a formula to arrive at his ridiculous assessment. It appears the Fascial office is simply too inept and inert to follow the law and make a comprehensive assessment of the value of your home.

I also noticed the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Office didn’t inform you of your legal rights to protest their amateur and asinine assessment. The County Fiscal Office is betting that most serfs will accept their increase. They could care less about the senior citizens [homestead and senior citizens exception has not been increased in decades], single parent or fixed income families including renters that may lose their homes with this fact less assessment.
Those that object will respond will be thrown crumbs as a settlement, don’t accept it. Remember your federal taxes will increase because you are limited to $10,000 for both you local, state and property taxes off your federal income tax deductions, unless your rich and can afford to set up multiple trust funds dividing the property.

The first step is to object to the increase responding to the notice and do it now. The second step it to request a hearing if the assessment is not less than 5 percent of their assessment. When thousands of property owners request hearing jamming the hearings into oblivion, a message will be heard, but it only temporary protest other than vote out all the current Cuyahoga County board.

What is need is to duplicate what I consider the only single sane act by California voters. Citizens of Ohio have the powers of initiated state statute, initiated constitutional amendment, and veto referendum. Ohio voters should start a petition for a constitution amendment that limits the greed of county government. California Proposition 13 limited the annual real estate tax on a parcel of property is limited to 1 percent of its assessed value. This "assessed value," may be increased only by a maximum of 2 percent per year, until and unless the property has a change of ownership.

It is that simple and the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Office can be reduced down to three employees in the boiler room to counting beans thus reducing the cost to taxpayers

Incidentally, schools didn’t close, governments didn’t file bankruptcy, police and fire protection was maintained, service continued but what they did have to do is reduce their staffs, benefits and indiscriminate spending and become servants of the people instead of trying to in slave taxpayers economically.