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	<description>Promoting Honesty in Taxation in Georgia</description>
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		<title>Paulding Bungles Budget Hearings; Citizens Denied a Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jayson phillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paulding county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paulding county commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabitha pollard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tommie graham]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On August 10, the Paulding County Commission approved property tax rates to fund the FY-2011 budgets of the county and of the school system. While the school board held its millage rate steady, the County Commission approved a 14.3% increase in the M&#38;O rate, from 6.65 to 7.60 mills. On August 24, the Commission held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catoosa to Raise Taxes to Court Costco, Pay Back With Sales Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[catoosa county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local option sales tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We got a little ink in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press this week when we were contacted about a deal that Catoosa County in north Georgia put together for Costco: Under the contracts agreed to Friday, the county will buy the land slated for Costco for $4.8 million, spend $4.5 million to improve it and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reassessment Leads to Revolt in Hancock County</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/reassessment-leads-to-revolt-in-hancock-county/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/reassessment-leads-to-revolt-in-hancock-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessed value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hancock county taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millage rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax increase]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, you know our solution. Require taxing authorities (cities, counties, school boards) to “do the math.” As assessments increase, the millage rate must decrease, simply as an operation of the math, as long as the politicians hold the line on the cost of government services. Hancock County, GA is typical in a state where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bragging Rights or Just Overtaxation in Suwanee?</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/bragging-rights-or-just-overtaxation-in-suwanee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/bragging-rights-or-just-overtaxation-in-suwanee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gwinnett county taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millage rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suwanee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Suwanee, GA (Gwinnett County) leaders are boasting about the recent confirmation of their AA-minus bond rating by Fitch Ratings. Knowing what we do about Suwanee’s property taxation practices, we looked at their tax rates for the past five years. What we found surprised and disappointed us—as the city’s debt millage decreased each year, the City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the Record Straight on Legislative Ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-legislative-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-legislative-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chip pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HB-233]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeowners Tax Relief Grant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTRG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Senator Chip Pearson has issued a press release to clarify just who is to blame for a significant jump in property tax bills this year. His publication exposes a primary problem with Georgia’s property tax code—state legislators who do not know what in the hell they are talking about. This year, the State Legislature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoschton Revamping 90-year-old Charter</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/hoschton-revamping-90-year-old-charter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[city charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city of hoschton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gwinnett county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millage rate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to the Hoschton City Council: As you revise your charter, I would suggest, in regards to the calculation and adoption of the millage rate, that the charter simply require that you follow the procedure that has been recommended and taught by the Department of Revenue for decades. There is only one CORRECT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeKalb Did the Right Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/dekalb-did-the-right-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dekalb county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dekalb property taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edward lindsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair market value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HB-233]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR-1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sb-55]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The following was sent to the author of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article here.] What DeKalb did appears to be exactly CORRECT&#8230;. at least, if your interest is in fairly valuing property. The consideration of foreclosures and other distressed sales does not produce a true market value; it does not contribute to equity and fairness in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Legislative Watch: HR 1 Back From the Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/georgia-legislative-watch-hr-1-back-from-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/georgia-legislative-watch-hr-1-back-from-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HR-1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment cap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment freeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chip rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edward lindsey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[House Republicans will try once again to pass HR1, a resolution calling for a vote on a constitutional amendment to impose a permanent, statewide assessment cap. I sent the following to every member of the House by email: House Democrats&#8211; please continue to resist efforts to pass HR1, now incorporated into SR1. On this issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valdosta Daily Times: Passing the Buck to Local Governments is Not `Tax relief`</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/valdosta-daily-times-passing-the-buck-to-local-governments-is-not-tax-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/valdosta-daily-times-passing-the-buck-to-local-governments-is-not-tax-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment caps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment freeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back door tax increase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doug stoner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edward lindsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HB-233]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millage rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim golden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Democrat Senators Tim Golden (D-Valdosta) and Doug Stoner (D-Smyrna) have co-authored an editorial highlighting the foundational problem with HB-233, Rep. Edward Lindsey’s assessment cap legislation that passed the Senate yesterday and is headed for the Governor’s desk: We do need to deal with rising property taxes in a responsible way. State government has actually been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate Passes Temporary Assessment Cap Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/state-senate-passes-temporary-assessment-cap-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/state-senate-passes-temporary-assessment-cap-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[assessment cap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment freeze]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gwinnett county]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[property taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Georgia State Senate has passed an amended version of HB-233, a bill to prohibit increases in the assessed value of property for the next two years. The changes will probably have to be reconciled with the House version, but the vote puts the bill one step closer to passage. Almost every Senator from my [...]]]></description>
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