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What You Can Do While logical in concept and
simple in application, a mathematically-derived millage rate requirement will be
a radical departure from common practice. This proposal will meet with vehement
opposition, primarily from elected officials whose jurisdictions currently
benefit from improperly inflated tax rates.
You can be a powerful
force in the effort to bring honesty to the property taxation process in
Georgia. Here's what you can do:
1. Check Your Own City or County
The best place for you to start
is where you live-- where you pay property taxes. We provide an easy,
step-by-step plan for collecting and analyzing information, including a template
"open records" request.
Check out "Is Your City or County
Doing It Right?"
2. Be an "Honesty In Taxation" Advocate in Your Area
Armed with information, you can encourage your
County Commissioners and City Council members to adopt the procedures
recommended here, even before legislation requiring them to do so is enacted.
Ask your local officials to visit MillageRate.com for the proper procedure for
setting the millage rate. Attend budget hearings and public meetings at which
the millage rate is discussed and/or adopted and insist that your elected
officials follow proper procedure for setting the millage rate.
Contact your local media--
newspapers, TV and radio-- and insist that they encourage their reporters
educate themselves on the millage rate process.
3. Subscribe to Our Newsletter
You should also
subscribe to the MillageRate.com newsletter below. Published on an "as needed"
basis, our newsletter will update you on the progress of this effort and provide
you with the information that you need to encourage honesty in taxation in your
city and county.
4. Join the Public Discussion in Your
Area
The following online discussion
forums offer the opportunity to discuss this important issue with other
concerned taxpayers:
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