FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
ChaQuias Miller-Thornton, City Manager
404-296-6489 (office) – cmthornton@cityofclarkston.com
1055 Rowland St., Clarkston, GA 30021
PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING A PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
Clarkston, GA, June 5, 2025 - The City of Clarkston City Council today announces its intention to increase the 2025 Property Taxes it will levy this year by 41.23 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 reassessments occurred.
The budget tentatively adopted by the City of Clarkston requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the City of Clarkston City Council may finalize and 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 at the Clarkston City Hall, Council Chambers located at 3921 Church St., Clarkston, GA 30021 on June 18, 2025, at 10:00 AM and 6:30 PM, and June 26, 2025, at 6:00 PM and by teleconference/ videoconference. All interested parties are invited to attend in-person and via phone or video to be heard. The meetings may be accessed at the following web addresses:
June 18, 2025, at 10:00 AM at the Clarkston City Hall, Council Chambers and by teleconference/videoconference: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1eiwLnmhTVSzZtMD70XzSA.
June 18, 2025, at 6:30 PM at the Clarkston City Hall, Council Chambers and by teleconference/videoconference:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pzndpBGUQLS58Tk6yFMWEQ.
June 26, 2025, at 6:00 PM at the Clarkston City Hall, Council Chambers and by teleconference/videoconference: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O22js9jXSSubMoD-YpzQGA.
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Click here to download a copy of the Press Release.
Click here to download a copy of the 2025 Notice of Property Tax Increase.
Click here to download a copy of the Current 2025 Property Tax Digest and 5-Year History of Levy.
Click here to download a copy of the Computation of Millage Rate Rollback and Percentage Increase in Property Taxes - 2025.