Deadline extended for Columbiana Homestead Exemption

Staff report

LISBON

Columbiana County Auditor Nancy Milliken announced that in an effort to assist county residents who turned 65, are totally disabled, or those who will turn 65 any time this year, that she has received authority from the state to extend the application deadline to the end of this year for the Homestead Exemption Program.

Seniors who already are signed up do not need to re-apply. The new enrollment period is designed primarily for individuals who were not previously eligible for the newly expanded Homestead Exemption program.

Any permanently and totally disabled individual or senior citizen who will be 65 or older in 2013 is eligible for the new program.

The exemption allows senior citizens and permanently and totally disabled Ohioans to reduce their property tax burden by shielding some of the market value of their home from taxation.

The exemption, which takes the form of a credit on property-tax bills, also allows qualifying homeowners to exempt $25,000 of the market value of their home from all local property taxes.

Milliken added that there is no income requirement for 2013, but there will be a requirement in 2014.