Manufactured Homes
MANUFACTURED HOME TAXES: PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
Number of Homestead Exemptions Granted, Average Reduction in
Taxable Value and Total Reduction in Taxes, by County, Tax
Year 1998
Number of Homestead Exemptions Granted, Average Reduction in
Taxable Value and Total Reduction in Taxes, by County, Tax
Year 1998
Manufactured home homestead exemption property tax reductions
were granted to 13,150 manufactured home homeowners for the
1998 tax year (1998 collections). Qualified senior citizens
or disabled manufactured home homeowners receive tax
reductions based on their total income, provided that the
income does not exceed $20,800. The taxes on the property
owned by such taxpayers were reduced by $1,427,788. The
average tax reduction amounted to $109, and the average
reduction in value amounted to $1,568.
Cuyahoga County had the greatest number of persons receiving
this tax reduction, 724, and the largest total reduction in
taxes, $129,727. Warren County had the least number of
persons receiving this tax reduction, 13, while Auglaize
County had the least total reduction in taxes, $1,193.
The figures in the first two columns of this table were
compiled through a survey of county auditors conducted by the
Ohio Department of Taxation. The data in the third column
showing the reduction in real property taxes are the actual
amounts reimbursed to each county for the manufactured home
homestead exemption, including reimbursements for refunds
issued by the county to taxpayers that filed "late"
applications for the tax year 1998 homestead exemption.
Administrative fees of 28,497 paid to the county auditors are
excluded from Table HE-2.