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

Opposition Grows Over Cobb EDGE Plan – Patch.com

January 23rd, 2012 Comments off

Opposition Grows Over Cobb EDGE Plan
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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Opposition Grows Over Cobb EDGE Plan – Patch.com

January 23rd, 2012 Comments off

Opposition Grows Over Cobb EDGE Plan
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 ...

Haas: ELOST issues are argument for vouchers – Online Athens

January 21st, 2012 Comments off

Haas: ELOST issues are argument for vouchers
Online Athens
Georgia law mandates that excess funds collected through an ELOST must go toward a property tax millage rate reduction. Certainly, the $32 million in unspent funds should immediately go toward such a reduction, but this leaves more than $150 million in ...

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Port Wentworth grapples with big budget gap – Savannah Morning News

January 19th, 2012 Comments off

Port Wentworth grapples with big budget gap
Savannah Morning News
“I think the council will have some decisions to make, long-term, about how they're going to fund the level of service that we have,” Claxton said, “either through the elimination of the homestead (property tax) exemption, raising the millage rate or ...

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Villa Rica budget process begins – Times-Georgian

January 19th, 2012 Comments off

Villa Rica budget process begins
Times-Georgian
Mayor J. Collins has ideas to cut property taxes by lowering the millage rate, which would also reduce the city's overall revenues. These are just a few of the proposals that will be put on the table today during a work session scheduled for 4 pm in ...

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