Source: Dan Monk, Business Courier, December 10, 2010
The Ohio Tax Commissioner has ruled against the city of Cincinnati in a dispute over property taxes on city-owned golf courses, a ruling that could cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
The Dec. 7 ruling is in response to a complaint filed by private golf-course operator Paul Macke, who argued the city-owned Woodland Golf Course should not be exempt from property taxes because the city turned the management of the courses over to a for-profit company. The city argued its courses continue to be operated for a public purpose and should therefore be exempt.
Ohio Tax Commissioner Richard Levin sided with Macke, ordering Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes to restore the 43-acre property to the tax rolls retroactive to 2009.
