Assessment Cap Offers No Accountability
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 resulting from an assessment cap because of the primary flaw in the tax law– a City Council, County Commission or School Board can currently adopt any millage rate that it chooses. There is no law that requires them to adopt a tax rate that has any connection to the cost of government. As a consequence, many adopt a tax rate that takes more from property owners than is required to fund government services. And the overtaxation happens even when the millage rate remains the same from year to year. Read more…
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