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Posted on: July 14, 2020

Marietta to Host Public Hearings on Proposed Overall Property Tax Decrease

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July 14, 2020

CONTACT: Lindsey Wiles

Communications Manager

lwiles@mariettaga.gov

770.794.5509

MARIETTA - The Marietta City Council announces its intention to increase the property taxes it will levy this year by 3.68 percent over the rollback millage rate by levying the General Fund tax rates the same as last year. However, the overall millage rate for property owners in the City of Marietta will decrease so that property owners will actually pay less in property taxes this year than last year.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

The budget tentatively adopted by the Marietta City Council contains a General Fund millage rate which differs from the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Marietta City Council may finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the General Fund. Because City Council voted to decrease the bond millage rate, total taxes will actually decrease by 1.14%. 

According to Georgia law, all taxing agencies must advertise a tax increase and hold three public hearings to claim taxes on reassessed properties even if the millage rate remains unchanged as is the case in Marietta. The current General Fund millage rate has remained the same for the last 19 years.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on what Georgia law defines as this General Fund tax increase to be held at Marietta City Hall, 205 Lawrence Street, Marietta, Georgia in the Council Chamber on July 21, 2020 at 9:00 am and 6:00 pm and on July 28, 2020 at 9:00 am. Citizens are also invited to comment on the overall tax decrease for Marietta property owners for 2020. If citizens cannot attend the public hearings they can always watch the meetings live on the City website or view at a later date.

City Council adopted a balanced budget on June 10, 2020 without raising taxes or establishing new fees, which also included no service reductions.

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