Clayton County is caught up after eight years of withholding the vehicle tax revenue it owed MARTA.
State law requires the county to pay MARTA a portion of ad valorem taxes on vehicle titles, but Clayton County didn’t pay what it owed from January 2017 to December 2024, starting when a previous tax commissioner challenged the calculation, public records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show.
Clayton caught up on its overdue bill this yearwith two payments totaling $26.5 million after the current tax commissioner, elected last November, initiated efforts to resolve the balance…