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	<title>MillageRate.com &#187; HB-233</title>
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		<title>Setting the Record Straight on Legislative Ignorance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Senator Chip Pearson has issued a press release to clarify just who is to blame for a significant jump in property tax bills this year. His publication exposes a primary problem with Georgia’s property tax code—state legislators who do not know what in the hell they are talking about. This year, the State Legislature [...]]]></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>New Law Freezes Property Assessment Hikes</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/new-law-freezes-property-assessment-hikes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/new-law-freezes-property-assessment-hikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[assessment caps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Sonny Perdue joins the ranks of the numerous elected officials who have no clue about what is wrong with Georgia’s property tax system, or how to fix it. We have written to excess about assessment caps; check out the archives: Legislation Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law on Wednesday makes sure of that. House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeKalb Did the Right Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.millagerate.com/blog/dekalb-did-the-right-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our View]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dekalb property taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edward lindsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair market value]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following was sent to the author of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article here.] What DeKalb did appears to be exactly CORRECT&#8230;. at least, if your interest is in fairly valuing property. The consideration of foreclosures and other distressed sales does not produce a true market value; it does not contribute to equity and fairness in [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[assessment caps]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment freeze]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gwinnett county]]></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>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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment cap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[back door tax increase]]></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>
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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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