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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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				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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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>Pickens Chief Tax Appraiser predicts confusion and frustration with HB-233</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know about effective property tax reform, don’t ask a politician. Check with a professional: “Every state that has implemented this &#8212; California, Colorado, and Florida &#8212; has ended up with higher property taxes,” he said. “The perception behind this is crazy. Tax bills are dictated by budgets. You start freezing values [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>The Professionals Understand</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/the-professionals-understand/</link>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment cap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[birney montcalm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unrealized gain]]></category>

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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></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>
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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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		<title>MillageRate.com: Why HB-233 Is Unconstitutional&#8230; And Dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/millageratecom-why-hb-233-is-unconstitutional-and-dangerous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/millageratecom-why-hb-233-is-unconstitutional-and-dangerous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment freeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edward lindsey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.millagerate.com/blog/millageratecom-why-hb-233-is-unconstitutional-and-dangerous/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written an article describing, with actual numbers, the (I believe, unconstitutional) inequity inherent in HB-233, which was approved by the Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday. Click the link below. The State Constitution requires that government treat its citizens equitably, except where the legislative creation of a special classification can be reasonably justified. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property tax fight gears up</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/property-tax-fight-gears-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/property-tax-fight-gears-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[georgia property taxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sam olens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Rep. Lindsey proposes to “fix” the unfairness in the state’s property tax system by introducing yet more inequity: State Rep. Edward Lindsey (R-Buckhead) said the current crisis sheds light on a flaw in the system — that assessments are a tax on an unrealized gain — an issue that draws some complaints when [...]]]></description>
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