Voters in several North Georgia cities and counties cast
ballots on a host of tax measures in last Tuesday’s elections.
A 54-46 majority of voters in Cobb County, a traditionally
low-tax county, authorized a $68 million bond that could raise Cobb’s property
tax millage rate by 2 mills, which would increase taxes there by $200 annually per
$100,000 in assessed value.
Also in the metro-area, majorities in Gwinnett
County (58-41) and Henry
County (54-46) approved renewals of 1 percent special local option sales
taxes (SPLOST), and Rockdale County voters passed a 1-cent
sales tax for education.
Elsewhere in North Georgia, majorities in Lumpkin
(70-30), Walker
(68-32), Carroll, Gilmer, Haralson, Madison, and Union County also approved SPLOSTs.
Anti-tax sentiment was more pronounced in Habersham County,
where SPLOST renewal was defeated 54-46, and
in Fayette
County where a SPLOST for stormwater drainage projects was defeated
57-43. A SPLOST in Floyd County barely
passed.
Voters in the City of Clarkesville in Habersham County
passed tax relief for businesses by approving Freeport exemptions on business
inventories.
The City of Decatur and DeKalb County had no proposed tax changes on the
ballot.
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