Over 99% of Georgia’s City Councils, County Commissions and School Boards fail to simply do the math.

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The millage rate (also known as the tax rate) is a figure applied to the value of your property to calculate your property tax liability. One “mill” equals one dollar of tax on every thousand dollars of taxable value. Your tax dollars are used to fund the cost of your government each year.

There is only one way to correctly calculate the millage– it is simply one number divided by another. When your city, county or school board correctly “does the math,” the cost of government* is equally spread to all property owners based on the value of their property. You pay no more and no less than is required to fully fund the budget.

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New city offers cut to DeKalb’s higher taxes – Reporter Newspapers

January 26th, 2012 Comments off

New city offers cut to DeKalb's higher taxes
Reporter Newspapers
It guarantees virtually all homeowners a property tax cut, even if the City Council sets the millage rate at the full 3.35 mills. However, the need for the Brookhaven City Council to use the full 3.35 mills is doubtful. Property taxes are likely to be ...

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Chairman Lee: Tax not only hope for toll lanes – Marietta Daily Journal

January 26th, 2012 Comments off

Chairman Lee: Tax not only hope for toll lanes
Marietta Daily Journal
Lee told a meeting of the East Cobb Civic Association that he met with Georgia Department of Transportation officials in early January, but they told him that all of the funding possibilities they studied came up at least $100 million short of what's ...

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Cobb EDGE Plan Opposition Increases – Patch.com

January 25th, 2012 Comments off

Cobb EDGE Plan Opposition Increases
Patch.com
... and corporate executives from Lockheed-Martin, WellStar Health System; Georgia Power; and Home Depot. But with Cobb facing another severe budget process and after the commission raised the millage rate for the current fiscal year, there are plenty ...

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Counties adept at revenue forecasts; critics want focus on spending – Atlanta Journal Constitution

January 25th, 2012 Comments off

Counties adept at revenue forecasts; critics want focus on spending
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Cobb raised its millage rate 15.7 percent in July, three months after the county chairman called for filling its deficit in part by closing most of the county's libraries. DeKalb's chief executive and County Commission battled for months over a ...

Commissioner’s Report: Time for DeKalb to change budget ways – Dunwoody Crier

January 24th, 2012 Comments off

Commissioner's Report: Time for DeKalb to change budget ways
Dunwoody Crier
However, that could be quite a different story when June rolls around and commissioners must set a millage rate. If property values continue to decline and we have less revenue than in 2011, we will be faced with either making more cuts or raising ...