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Images reveal new taxable property – The Augusta Chronicle

January 27th, 2012 Comments off

Images reveal new taxable property
The Augusta Chronicle
The technology had to be adopted after 2010 changes in Georgia law began requiring annual review of all property values. The office's cost to send an appraiser out to each of the more than 80000 parcels in Augusta-Richmond would have been $3.2 million, ...

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 ...