Dekalb County Property Tax Appeal

As stated in Georgia law, before tax bills are released, all counties should have already issued an Annual Assessment Notice to all taxable real estate owners. This Tax Assessment Notice should be distributed April - June of each year.

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DeKalb County Tax Assessment Impending Appeal Deadline

Your DeKalb County tax assessment appeal deadline for 2012 is July 13, or this coming Friday. You can get the uniform Georgia property tax appeal form by clicking on the link. Your DeKalb County tax assessment appeal only needs to be post-marked by July 13, and I recommend that you send this certified mail. Many people are unaware that you do not have to pay for a return receipt when you send certified mail. If anyone ever denies having received something you sent certified mail you can go to the post office and pay for the (electronic) signature after delivery.

The DeKalb County tax Assessors have caused quite a stir this year in that many taxpayers were dismayed to see their tax assessments rise to heights or sink to depths they thought impossible. It would not surprise me if some taxpayers appeal because they think their values are too low, especially those people that are trying to sell their houses. Real estate appraisal is an inexact science and the mass appraisal process the assessors use is even more questionable. For some reason, however, people look at the tax assessment when they are buying a home. 

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DeKalb County Tax Assessment

You still have approximately three weeks to appeal your DeKalb County tax assessment. The dealine to appeal is July 13 for most county tax payers. After DeKalb County's recognition that some of the tax assessments that were sent out were erroneous they said they would send out second notices on up to 4,000 homes. These corrective notices should have another 45 day appeal period from the date of notice. If you get a second notice and you do not have 45 days to appeal I would like to hear about it. 

Some home owners are complaining that their DeKalb County tax assessment is now too low. I know that the assessment on my house is below market value but I'm not complaining. I figure the County will increase my value in 2013 or 2014 or whenever they think they have enough market data to increase it. It is the people that are trying to sell their real estate that are the loudest about low DeKalb County tax assessments. Although home buyers should put little faith in the tax assessment they often do. Because I am not ready to sell I will keep my mouth shut and enjoy the smaller tax bill.

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DeKalb County Tax Assessment

The DeKalb County tax assessment notices are out and dated May 29, 2012. The deadline to appeal your 2012 value is July 13, 2012. The tax amount at the bottom of the notice is an estimate based on the 2011 tax rate and is subject to change. The DeKalb County tax assessment notice, as is the case with all Georgia assessment notices, is not a bill.

Wow. Just like last year, there are some wild and wacky value changes in DeKalb County tax assessments. Values dropped almost 50% on my street. Across the way values declined 17%, and just south 1/2 mile values were increased approximately 20%. A similar situation was seen last year at this time. Check that blog post here. Although the DeKalb County budget is in disaray it would be nice at some point if the DeKalb County tax assessment department gave us the sales information that they are using.

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DeKalb County Tax Assessment

 DeKalb County tax assessments will be mailed on May 29th according to a report by the AJC. This will make the tax assessment appeal deadline July 13th. The DeKalb County Tax Assessment office reports that values (assessments) dropped six percent for the 2012 tax year. There continues to be value weakness throughout the Atlanta metro area. 

The DeKalb County Board of Equalization (BOE) continues to struggle under the weight of the 2011 tax assessment appeals that are still unresolved. I was just engaged to do a hearing on June 6 for a homeowner that cannot attend their 2011 hearing. Anyone of right mind would not want to attend one of these hearings as it is first come, first served, and too many hearings are scheduled for each morning or afternoon.

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