Thursday, January 16, 2025, the Dade County Board of Education is having the second of three required public hearings on the decision to decline from participating in Georgia’s recently enacted state law known as HB 581.
Approved statewide by voters in November, the new law would introduce a floating homestead exemption that limits increases in taxable home values to the inflation rate. The law also allows a local taxing authority to choose whether to opt-out of the law’s adoption…