Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers sent out this press release after passage of SB 346, legislation that will reform the property tax system in the state:
The most sweeping overhaul of the Georgia property tax system in decades has won unanimous (54-0) approval in the Georgia Senate. Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers’ (R-Woodstock) Property Tax [...]
That’s the way it sounds:
In a deliberate, unusual display of unity on the issue of transportation funding, the three heads of state government on Thursday stood together in backing a proposal to allow a region’s voters to raise a 1-cent sales tax for projects in that region.
“This approach allows those that are closest to the [...]
Rep. Larry O’Neal (R-Bonaire) and Rep. David Knight (R-Griffin) have introduced legislation, HB 1093, that would let the state go after businesses’ back taxes:
Rep. Larry O’Neal (R-Bonaire) is co-sponsoring a bill that would require local governments to share information with the State Revenue Department on which businesses are issued a business license and if those [...]
Senate Majority Chip Rogers unveiled his proposal (SB 346) to overhaul the state’s property tax system today, which the Senator says will bring fairness to the system:
“The collection of taxes should be fair, transparent and easy to understand. Sadly, the property tax in Georgia accomplishes none of these things,” Rogers said. “This legislation attempts to [...]
Here is an interesting opinion piece from the Macon Telegraph on how AT&T and trying to get a tax increase passed for cell phone users:
Under the ironic title of “Telecom Modernization Legislation,†AT&T is asking the Georgia General Assembly to give it a reduction in charges it pays other carriers and deregulation of its retail [...]
A debate over property taxes is about to come up in the legislature:
Cagle, in a breakfast address kicking off the Georgia Municipal Association’s annual Mayors’ Day, said changes will be recommended to ensure “fairness and equity†not only for the cities and counties, but also for taxpayers.
He did not provide details of the plan, but [...]
Speaker David Ralston and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle are cool to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposed tax hikes to fund Medicaid, according to Travis Fain:
Shortly before they spoke to city officials in Atlanta Monday morning for a Georgia Municipal Association breakfast, I spoke to Speaker of the House David Ralston and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle about [...]
Gov. Sonny Perdue spoke about transportation funding and gave a nod to the T-SPLOST proposal as well as $300 million in bonds for projects in the FY 2011 budget:
[Perdue] said he hoped future governors and Legislatures would continue to pass $300 million per year in bond funding for transportation projects, for a total of $3 [...]