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County tax official gives 2025 figures as board weighs 1¢ sales tax impact
Summary
A county tax office official cited 2025 figures—just over $40 million in county collections, about $9.1 million from homesteaded properties—and staff used those numbers to illustrate how a 1% sales tax could offset a portion of homestead county taxes; commissioners discussed acreage rules and accessory structure treatment.
A county tax office representative provided numerical context for the board, saying Troup County collected a little over $40,000,000 in county collections for 2025 and that homesteaded properties contributed roughly $9,100,000 of that total.
"Of that $40,000,000 the homesteaded properties brought in 9,100,000 of that," the tax office official said when explaining how the homestead share fits into calculations for a 1¢ sales tax.
Staff and commissioners used that example to show how the 47% homestead share creates a threshold for applying homestead offsets; they discussed that any money collected beyond the projected homestead offset could be applied across other property classes. The board also discussed how accessory structures and acreage beyond the defined homestead would remain taxable and how local choices (for example, whether to cap at two acres or follow a statutory five-acre definition) would influence who benefits and how much.
