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		<title>Assessment `Freeze` Challenge Finally Goes to Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A two-year-old challenge to the homestead assessment `freeze` in Dade County, GA has finally gone to court. Superior Court Judge Brian House is expected to rule soon in a case that could set a precedence for ending unconstitutional assessment caps across the state. Former County Commissioner Rex Blevins sued the county, alleging that the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Legislative Watch: HR 1 Back From the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>State Senate Passes Temporary Assessment Cap Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></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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		<title>TalkGwinnett.com: Are You Ready for Higher Taxes?</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/talkgwinnettcom-are-you-ready-for-higher-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/talkgwinnettcom-are-you-ready-for-higher-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have published an article at TalkGwinnett.com about my home county’s budget woes and a pending millage increase. What is interesting about our situation is how HB-233, if passed, would affect our tax bills: The passage of HB-233 (and it seems certain) will result in a higher tax bill for you. Even though the county [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Professionals Understand</title>
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		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/the-professionals-understand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was published in the Douglas County Sentinel this morning. The author, Birney Montcalm, is an appraiser in the Douglas County Assessors&#8217; Office. As a property tax professional, Montcalm understands what the politicians have yet to be able to grasp&#8211; an assessment cap would be completely ineffective and harmful to the property tax system: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate `Morning Logic` on HB-233</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/state-senate-morning-logic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/state-senate-morning-logic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;. &#8230; if you are a Republican who is a &#8220;team player,&#8221; whether or not &#8220;the team&#8221; is RIGHT OR WRONG&#8230; &#8230; if you will not vote your conscience (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State House `Morning Encouragement`</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/state-house-morning-encouragement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/state-house-morning-encouragement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HR-1]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[edward lindsey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[millage rates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s assessment cap proposal, HR-1, must be enacted as a Constitutional amendment? Our State Constitutional requires FAIRNESS IN TAXATION: &#8220;&#8230;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What You Don`t Know About HR-1</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/what-you-dont-know-about-hr-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/what-you-dont-know-about-hr-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[back door tax increase]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even AFTER HR-1, the 3% Assessment Cap, local officials can still adopt the same millage rate as in the previous year, even as property assessments increase. This will generate a tax windfall known as the "back door tax increase." Property owners will still pay more even when local politicians don't "raise taxes."]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Legislative Watch: Pols Treat Symptoms But Ignore the Cause</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/georgia-legislative-watch-pols-treat-symptoms-but-ignore-the-cause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/georgia-legislative-watch-pols-treat-symptoms-but-ignore-the-cause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HR-1]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Georgia Legislative Watch” has graciously published our extensive commentary on the problems with HR-1, HB-233 and assessment caps in general. If you are interested the Georgia legislative process, check out this site. The cure for “back door tax increases” is simple– require cities, counties and school boards to DO THE MATH. Doing so would remove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessment Cap Offers No Accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/assessment-cap-offers-no-accountability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/assessment-cap-offers-no-accountability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HR-1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment cap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was written in response to Senator Chip Rogers’ 2/13/09 article for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, “Count on Tax Assessment Caps to Offer Property Owners Accountability:” Senator Rogers is wrong when he writes that assessment caps are the best way to impose accountability on local officials. First, there can be no real accountability [...]]]></description>
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