7 Ohio St. 2d 139 | Ohio | 1966
The issue before the court is whether the Board of Tax Appeals has properly interpreted and followed the order of this court.
The board assessed the Goldberg property at 52% of its agreed fair market value. This was undisputed in the record to be the prevailing average ratio of assessed value to fair market value of commercial property in Cuyahoga County. This assessment was based upon the finding of the Board of Tax Appeals, which reads as follows:
“(2) A parcel of residential property is comparable only to other parcels of residential property and a parcel of commercial property is comparable only to other parcels of commercial property.”
This finding denies the taxpayer his state and federal constitutional rights and is directly contra to the law as pronounced by this court in this case in the opinion which resulted in the remand of this case to the Board of Tax Appeals. Koblenz v. Board of Revision, 5 Ohio St. 2d 214. At page 216 in the opinion in that case, this court said:
“Section 2 of Article XII of the Ohio Constitution provides :
“ ‘Land and improvements thereon shall be taxed by uniform rule according to value. * * *’
‘ ‘ Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment' to the Constitution of the United States provides in part that no state ‘shall * * # deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’
“This court held in State, ex rel. Park Investment Co., v. Board of Tax Appeals, 175 Ohio St. 410 (certiorari denied, 379 U. S. 818), at pages 412 and 413:
“ ‘It is clear that under the Ohio law all real property, regardless of its nature or use, may be assessed and taxed oiüy by a uniform rule on the basis of value.
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It could not be stated in more succinct language.
The decision of the Board of Tax Appeals is, therefore, reversed, the cause is remanded to the Board of Tax Appeals, and the hoard is ordered to comply with the law as established by this court.
Decision reversed.