Walker County Messenger

Rossville holding 3 public hearings about tax increase

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The City of Rossville intends to increase the 2016 property taxes it will levy this year by 2.55 percentage over the rollback millage rate.

Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessme­nt.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessme­nts occurred.

The budget tentativel­y adopted by the City of Rossville requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate, therefore, before the mayor and council can finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunit­y to express their opinions on the increase.

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