What is the Current Agricultural Use Value Law?
The law is an outgrowth of the Constitutional Amendment passed by the voters of the State of Ohio to save our open spaces and to protect the farmer from paying high property taxes for his farmland.
The law is an outgrowth of the Constitutional Amendment passed by the voters of the State of Ohio to save our open spaces and to protect the farmer from paying high property taxes for his farmland.
The CAUV application must be filed each year. The county has devised a very simplified renewal procedure, requiring only a notification from year to year.
No, the farm has to qualify, not the owner.
If you do not re-file your application for a Current Agricultural Use Valuation, then the Auditor is required to value the property at its true market or current market value to recoup the taxes for the current tax year and for the three (3) years in the past.