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Values to cost county

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Walter Geiger
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Wednesday, August 17. 2011
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By Sherri Ellington

With the state moratorium on property values lifted, the Lamar County board of assessors is looking at a scramble to get values back in line with Department of Revenue standards. Or, they could leave them as is and bite a smaller bullet in penalties while leaving nearly $900,000 in county revenue in place. Commissioner Nancy Thrash, who was at the Aug. 11 meeting, advocated leaving the digest as is and taking the $46,000 penalty.

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#1 mollycogdell on 08/17/11 at 05:57 AM
The taxpayer will first have to determine which type of tax settlement they would like to apply for and then submit the appropriate forms to the IRS for review before making a decision. A taxpayer can either fill out the information themselves or they can have a designated tax professional make the filing on their behalf. Highly Recommend "Free Tax Settlement" for this problem.
#2 Taxpayer on 08/17/11 at 12:01 PM
What about the man dated reval by the Board of Equalization? I guess what they said meant nothing. Commissioners just do as they please! Go by the assessors office and ask for a copy of the boe actions. When will the values in this county going to be equal?
#3 Anonymous on 08/17/11 at 05:48 PM
A lot of this doesn't make sense... so that means we are about to get screwed...some more!
#4 appraiser-for-another-county on 08/19/11 at 10:43 AM
Here's some info....your current year value is based on the sales that occurred in the previous year. If they raise the values for next year, but don't have the sales to support, then they have to lower it. Clayton County works this way by keeping artifically high values until someone contests them. If the Assessor's office thought they had a high number of appeals this year, just wait until next year.
Besides, it seems that the county is getting their cart before the horse. State legislation is probably working on a cap to keep counties from doing this.
If my value goes up, I'll be the first in line to file my appeal, and I would suggest everyone in this county do the same.
#5 Anonymous on 08/19/11 at 10:48 AM
Other counties are taking budget cuts, lay offs, furlough days, hiring freeze, etc. What makes the employees of Lamar County any better than those of Clayton, Henry, Cobb, Newton & Rockdale who have all had to endure furlough days? Why penalize the property owners because you don't want to do what's right?
#6 Taxpayer on 08/19/11 at 01:46 PM
Amen. Since you are appraiser you know this county has a equlazition problem. The boe man dated a reval to fix this problem. I think every taxpayer should appeal their value next year. Lets put a stop to all this unfairness. If we all appeal we can stop the commissioners from collecting most of there revenue.
#7 fish on 08/19/11 at 06:48 PM
raise the values we need more services in lamar county. Like public transportation. I need a ride who do I call.
#8 wally tolbert on 08/22/11 at 11:35 AM
how much longer do you think the productive side of society is going to keep paying for the unprodictive bums and leaches (also known as obama voters) of society?
#9 fish on 08/22/11 at 03:39 PM
don't call yourself a leach wally, have a beer a chill
#10 Fed up with the Co. trying to bulldoze me! on 08/23/11 at 08:06 PM
I have appealed our value twice now because Lamar Co. has our house valued at a $40,000 difference than what it appraised for. There are several foreclosures in our neighborhood and the houses are selling for $70,000 - $100,000 less then what we paid for our house. This is just one way that Lamar Co. insist on putting the screws to the citizens just to get more money out of the tax payer. Lamar Co. disgusts me and I refuse to go down without a fight!
#11 Anonymous on 08/24/11 at 12:47 PM
They will continue paying untill the economy completely dies, and that will happen if the same amount of brain dead voters put obamma back in office.i myself am a small business owner.i know several developers, investors, and business owners. They all say the same thing as i do. We WILL not invest any of our money as long as he is still in office. Can anyone blame us?
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