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Ware County tax official says opting out of HB 581 would reduce assessor workload and keep FLOST eligibility
Summary
At a Jan. 30 public hearing, Tax Commissioner Roger Collins told the Ware County Board of Commissioners that opting out of House Bill 581 would avoid an extra layer of assessment tracking and, he said, would not forfeit eligibility for a future fractional local option sales tax (FLOST); the hearing closed with no formal decision.
WARE COUNTY, Ga. — At a public hearing Thursday evening, Tax Commissioner Roger Collins told the Ware County Board of Commissioners that the county'9s existing base-year ("freeze") homestead exemption makes House Bill 581 unnecessary for Ware and that opting out would spare assessors an added administrative burden.
Collins said Ware County already maintains frozen homestead values at the county, city and Board of Education levels, a setup he said began for the county after legislation passed in 2001 and took effect in 2002. "We would not have to track that fourth value and do the work that is unnecessary," he said, describing the practical effect of declining the statewide…
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