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

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.

Rep. John Lunsford (R-McDonough) has introduced HB-498, a bill to require county appraisers to include foreclosure sales and distressed sales in their assessment of Fair Market Value of any property.

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The following was published in the Douglas County Sentinel this morning. The author, Birney Montcalm, is an appraiser in the Douglas County Assessors’ Office.

As a property tax professional, Montcalm understands what the politicians have yet to be able to grasp– an assessment cap would be completely ineffective and harmful to the property tax system:

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The following was sent to members of the Georgia State Senate this morning as they prepare to consider HB-233 this week:

DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER….

… if you are a Republican who is a “team player,” whether or not “the team” is RIGHT OR WRONG…

… if you will not vote your conscience (or your intelligence) because it might cost you that plum committee appointment…

… if you really DON’T CARE whether or not the legislation you support actually DOES what it is supposed to do, or might even cause MORE HARM than good…

… if you have NO CLUE and do not care to know THE TRUTH about HB-233.

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The following was sent to members of the Georgia House this morning. We invite you to reinforce the message by contacting your own state legislator.

Good morning, Representative.

Have you ever SERIOUSLY considered WHY Rep.Edward Lindsey’s assessment cap proposal, HR-1, must be enacted as a Constitutional amendment?

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