Newton County Proposed Property Tax Increase

The Newton County Board of Commissioners announces its intention to increase the 2025 property taxes it will levy this year by 10.31% percentage over the rollback millage rate.

The Board of Tax Assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property within the county each year. 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 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 reassessments occurred.

The budget tentatively adopted by the Newton County Board of Commissioners requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Newton County Board of Commissioners may finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate, Georgia Law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinion on the increase.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held in the Boardroom of the Newton County Historic Courthouse, 1124 Clark Street, Covington, Georgia on July 29, 2025, at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and on August 5, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.

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