Press Release Announcing a Proposed Property Tax Increase
Press Release Announcing a Proposed Property Tax Increase
June 29, 2025
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners today announces its intentions to increase the 2025 General Fund property taxes it will levy this year by 12.49 percent over the rollback millage rate.
Each year the Board of Tax Assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.
When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessment occurred.
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners proposes a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Fulton County Board of Commissioners may set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held in the Government Center Assembly Hall, 141 Pryor Street, Atlanta, GA 30303 on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 10 a.m., and via video conferencing accessible via the Fulton County website at www.fultoncountyga.gov.
These sessions can also be accessed directly via Zoom addresses at the following public meeting dates and times:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 10 a.m. -
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hezsRy-kS1OfHlDMn3Tldg
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 6 p.m. -
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hezsRy-kS1OfHlDMn3Tldg
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 10 a.m. -
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__nVFiYNGRee-ykGVMuKslA
Each year the Board of Tax Assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.
When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessment occurred.
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners proposes a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Fulton County Board of Commissioners may set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held in the Government Center Assembly Hall, 141 Pryor Street, Atlanta, GA 30303 on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 10 a.m., and via video conferencing accessible via the Fulton County website at www.fultoncountyga.gov.
These sessions can also be accessed directly via Zoom addresses at the following public meeting dates and times:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 10 a.m. -
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hezsRy-kS1OfHlDMn3Tldg
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 6 p.m. -
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hezsRy-kS1OfHlDMn3Tldg
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 10 a.m. -
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__nVFiYNGRee-ykGVMuKslA