The Thomasville City Board of Education today announces its intentions to increase the 2025 property taxes it will levy this year by 11.12 percent over the rollback millage rate. Please note that the actual millage rate for the Board of Education will be the same as the 2022 and 2023 rate of 16.414. The Thomasville City Board of Education levied the rollback rate of 15.115 mills in 2024. Due to inflationary increases of the current market as it relates to labor, insurance, fuel, energy, and supply costs in addition to uncertainty surrounding federal funds, the budget requires this increase to meet its needs. Furthermore, this 16.414 millage rate from 2022 and 2023 represents a decrease from the 2020 millage rate of 18.422 and the 2021 millage rate of 17.990.
Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.
When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires a rollback millage rate be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessment occurred.
The budget adopted by the Thomasville City Board of Education requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Thomasville City Board of Education may set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the Thomasville City Board of Education, 404 N Broad St FL-3, Thomasville, GA, 31792, on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM, on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM, and on Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM.