City of Kennesaw recently issued the following announcement.
The City of Kennesaw today announces its intention to increase the 2021 property taxes it will levy this year by 7.27 percent for M&O and 6.61 percent for Bond over the rollback millage rate.
Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.
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 City of Kennesaw Council requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the City of Kennesaw 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 increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the City of Kennesaw Council Chambers located at 2529 J.O. Stephenson Avenue, Kennesaw, Georgia on August 9, 2021 at 6:00 PM and August 16, 2021 at 10:30 AM and 6:30 PM.
Notice of Property Tax Increase 2021
Advertisement of 5 year history and adoption date – Kennesaw FY 22
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Kennesaw
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