NAHUNTA — Assessment notices for Brantley County landowners will soon be arriving, according to Chief Appraiser Angela Keene.
She gave county commissioners an update of plans during the Tuesday, June 3 work session. Keene said the assessment notices will be mailed out Friday, June 13 or Monday, June 16. “It’ll still have estimated tax,” she said. “It won’t have the rollback rate. You’ll have something addressing that, but it’ll be estimated tax. It will not have your garbage fee, your user fee and EMS fee. So that’ll be on your tax board. You receive it, but it’ll be estimated tax on the other items.”
When asked if the notices will have an explanation with the bill, Keene said, “there will be an explanation on there about the adjustments.”
She added, “We’ll put something up in the office. We didn’t get anything printed yet. I can probably get with the printer, because we haven’t sent it to print, and I can ask him to put another sheet in there to explain that, or we can put it on, end up in the office or on the website, either way, whichever y’all prefer.”
County Manager Joey Cason asked Keene if Brantley County was now in compliance with House Bill 581 and HB 92. She answered “yes”.
Keene
To comply with HB 581 and HB 92, the 2025 Tax Assessment notices must contain either the estimated rollback rate for the current year of each levying or recommending authority [OCGA 48-5306(b)(1)(l)(i)] OR the millage rate that was actually levied by or on behalf of such authority for the previous tax year, and an estimate of the amount of ad valorem taxes due for the assessed property based on such millage rate and the amount of the current assessment [OCGA 48-5306(b)(1)(l)(ii)].
HB 92 requires local governments that opted out and do not have a homestead freeze or a floating homestead exemption in place, to place a notice on each homestead property’s ad valorem property tax bill notifying property owners of the local government’s decision to opt out.
Local governments would be required to place this notice on the property tax bill until December 31, 2029.
HB 92 also changes the definition of ‘homestead’ to include no more than five acres of contiguous land surrounding the residence. The bill also allows for a surviving spouse to keep the floating homestead exemption without having to reapply.
