Additional county leaders are coming forward to express worries about what efforts to repeal property taxes in Ohio would mean for their services.
Tuscarawas County Commissioner Kristin Zemis says abolition property taxes would create an almost immediate 20 to 25 percent hit, or about six and a half million dollars out the yearly operating budget that averages about 32 million dollars.
She says that’s revenue that can’t just be replaced.
Zemis says that would also result in the elimination of the county’s veterans service office.
Meanwhile, Tuscarawas County Senior Center Director Jamie Smith says services there would be drastically cut and the satellite location would be at jeopardy of closing without their $1.7 million property tax levy.
The group Citizens for Property Tax Reform has until this week to submit more than 400,000 signatures to get its proposed ballot issue to abolish property taxes in Ohio on the November ballot.
Zemis adds the legislature is working on bills addressing property tax relief and bolstering the homestead exemption.
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