- Lawrenceville, Georgia plans to maintain consistent millage rates on property taxes for 2026, resulting in a 10% increase over the “rollback” rate as required by state law.
Lawrenceville on Thursday announced its plans to maintain consistent millage rates on their property taxes for 2026.
Under Georgia statutory stipulations, this will work out to a 10% increase over what’s called the “rollback” rate — a figure calculated to “produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.”
Essentially, the base rate will stay the same, but because property values have gone up and city revenue accordingly rises, the city is bound to notify the public of a tax increase…