Saitta talks property tax rates

Dear Editor,

This is a property tax reassessment year. By law, the reassessment process must be revenue neutral for county governments, school districts and cities throughout the state. To ensure the higher home values do not result in a tax revenue gain, the tax rates must be lowered or rolled back proportionally.

Here are the tax rates for last year, and the rollback rates for this year. Pickens County government: 74.0 mills this past year, rolled back to 69.8 due to the reassessment

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