A perfect storm of sorts passed through Columbus in 2012, causing a flood of lawsuits against local property owners, filed by the city's Board of Tax Assessors. Read More
Victory has been achieved in an ongoing battle over a tax assessed to businesses at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, but it’s not the tax some people might think of. Read More
Many of the property tax estimates that will be mailed out to Gwinnett County residents later this week will be wildly inaccurate — and there’s nothing county officials can do about it. Read More
A proposal to raise Fulton County’s homestead exemption could mean property tax relief for tens of thousands of homeowners. Or it could mean tax cuts for some property owners and tax hikes for others. Read More
Georgia House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, R-Milton, will introduce tomorrow local legislation to lower property taxes for Fulton County homeowners by increasing the homestead exemption from $30,000 to $60,000. Read More
A bill introduced in the Georgia General Assembly last week by state Rep. Brett Harrell (R-Snellville) would prohibit municipalities from adding non-tax fees to property tax bills. Harrell initially introduced the bill in 2011 with nearly 60 co-signers. Read More
George Grovner’s island property off the southeastern Georgia coast isn’t fancy, just an acre of land with a double-wide mobile home on it. But he’s hung onto the place long after moving to the mainland to stay connected to his roots among the slave descendants who have stayed on Sapelo Island for generations, since the Civil War ended. Read More
Donald Johnson, one of the men who sets tax values on Fulton County properties, wants his rights restored to appraise real estate for a living. Read more
An agreement with Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia to issue $1.6 billion in bonds for potentially growing its supplier base could secure West Point and Troup County millions and additional tax revenue for the school system. Read more
Florida voters passed three property tax amendments to the state constitution favored by Florida Realtors. In addition, a number of Florida Realtors PAC candidates won their respective districts. Read more
Cobb County residents could see a drop in annual property taxes in exchange for a higher sales tax under a plan that commissioners are exploring. Read more
Home Depot and Lockheed Martin are again among Cobb’s top taxpayers for 2012, though the preliminary data released by Tax Commissioner Gail Downing does not yet include public utilities.Read more
The Chatham County Board of Assessors is excluding hundreds of home sales from its assessment process based on the fact they were purchased from mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Read more
