June 26, 2023
PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING A PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE 2023
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The Rockdale County Board of Education today announces its intention to increase the 2023 property taxes it will levy this year by 12.96% 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 of 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 Rockdale County Board of Education requires that a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate be assessed. Therefore, before the Rockdale County Board of Education 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 hearing on this tax increase to be held at the Board Room, 960 Pine Street NE, Conyers, Georgia on Thursday July 13, 2023 at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 6:30 p.m.
NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
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The Rockdale County Board of Education has tentatively adopted a 2023 millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes by 12.96%.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at the Board Meeting Room, 960 Pine Street NE, Conyers, GA 30012 on Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 20.00 mills, an increase of 2.295 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 17.705 mills.
The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $100,000 is approximately $240.98 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $275.40.
NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
(Click here for PDF)
The Rockdale County Board of Education has tentatively adopted a 2023 millage rate which will require an increase in property taxes by 12.96%.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at the Board Meeting Room, 960 Pine Street NE, Conyers, GA 30012 on Thursday July 20, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 20.00 mills, an increase of 2.295 mills. Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 17.705 mills.
The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $240.98 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $275.40.
PUBLIC NOTICE
(PDF of Current Tax Digest and 5 Year Levy History)
The Rockdale County Board of Education does hereby announce that the 2023 millage rate will be set at a meeting to be held in the Board Meeting Room located at 960 Pine Street on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 7 p.m. Pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. 48-5-32 do hereby publish the following presentation of the current year's tax digest and levy, along with the history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.
CURRENT 2023 TAX DIGEST AND 5 YEAR HISTORY OF LEVY
($ in 1,000s)
COUNTY WIDE
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Real & Personal
2018: 2,667,124
2019: 2,862,970
2020: 3,213,500
2021: 3,525,747
2022: 4,250,096
2023: 5,039,219
Motor Vehicles
2018: 49,581
2019: 40,312
2020: 34,392
2021: 27,560
2022: 24,572
2023: 24,809
Mobile Homes
2018: 2,270
2019: 2,308
2020: 2,208
2021: 2,292
2022: 2,348
2023: 2,626
Timber-100%
2018: 0
2019: 0
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 0
2023: 0
Heavy Duty Equipment
2018: 0
2019: 0
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 0
2023: 0
Gross Digest Total
2018: 2,718,975
2019: 2,905,590
2020: 3,250,100
2021: 3,555,599
2022: 4,277,016
2023: 5,066,654
Less M&O Exemptions
2018: 531,774
2019: 542,112
2020: 549,357
2021: 571,062
2022: 675,379
2023: 803,506
Net M&O Digest
2018: 2,187,201
2019: 2,363,478
2020: 2,700,743
2021: 2,984,537
2022: 3,601,637
2023: 4,263,148
Gross M&O Millage
2018: 24.90
2019: 24.70
2020: 24.60
2021: 22.717
2022: 21.00
2023: 20.00
Less Rollbacks
2018: 0.00
2019: 0.00
2020: 0.00
2021: 0.00
2022: 0.00
2023: 0.00
Net M&O Millage
2018: 24.90
2019: 24.70
2020: 24.60
2021: 22.717
2022: 21.00
2023: 20.00
Net Taxes Levied
2018: 54,461
2019: 58,378
2020: 66,438
2021: 67,517
2022: 75,634
2023: 85,263
Net Taxes $ Increase
2018: 4,037
2019: 3,917
2020: 8,060
2021: 1,361
2022: 7,835
2023: 9,629
Net Taxes % Increase
2018: 8.0
2019: 7.2
2020: 13.8
2021: 2.0
2022: 11.6
2023: 12.7