The Bartow County Board of Education today announced its intention to increase the 2018 property taxes it will levy this year by 3.56 percent over the rollback millage rate.
The Bartow County Board of Education has proposed a decrease in the millage rate for 2018. The proposed millage rate will be reduced to 18.85 from the current rate of 18.99. State law requires this to be advertised as a tax increase since the state measures change not against the actual prior-year millage rate, but rather against the “rollback rate.” The rollback rate is calculated by subtracting any increase in the digest due to 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. 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 the millage rate to be held at the Central Office at 65 Gilreath Road in Cartersville on August 9th at noon and 6:00 p.m. An additional public hearing on this tax increase is at the Central Office on August 20, 2018 at 5:30.