HB581 will freeze property owners’ values on home, first five acres
The Pickens County Tax Assessors office sent out approximately 24,000 property assessment notices last week – and increases in some assessed values have stirred up frustration.
While no one wants to see their property taxes go up, Chief Tax Appraiser Roy Dobbs explained that Georgia law requires counties to assess properties based on fair market value. Ideally, each property would be updated annually, but counties don’t have the staff to manage that workload. In Pickens, properties are typically reassessed once every three years…