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Anderson County adopts 2026 budget and a 0.493907 tax rate to close deficit
Summary
Anderson County Commissioners Court approved the 2026 budget and adopted a property tax rate of 0.493907 per $100 of taxable value to help close projected deficits, add a $755,000 road-and-bridge contingency and cover a $500,000 retirement contribution; commissioners debated alternatives and voted by record to adopt the proposed rate.
Anderson County’s Commissioners Court on Sept. 8 adopted the county’s 2026 budget and set the property tax rate at 0.493907 per $100 of assessed value, a move the presiding judge said is intended to reduce an operating deficit and preserve services.
Judge (presiding) led the court through a detailed budget presentation and said the combination of the proposed rate and two one-time payments into the retirement system would materially reduce the county’s projected shortfall. “I’m trying to make sure we’ve got the revenue so we don’t have to cut services,” the judge said during discussion on the floor.
Why it matters: County staff presented three modeled revenue scenarios — the proposed rate, a voter-approval rate and a no-new-revenue rate — and showed how each would change the general-fund shortfall. The…
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