Fulton Mayors Urge Board of Assessors to Preserve Developer Tax Breaks
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
A group of mayors, development authority leaders and attorneys crammed into the Fulton County Board of Assessors meeting last week and urged the group to maintain the status quo for how lucrative property tax breaks are granted to businesses and developers.
At the end of last year, the board of assessors — under the threat of legal action — pumped the brakes on how it handles appraisals on properties that have been given incentives by local development authorities. But on Thursday, mayors and other officials said they’d be out of the corporate recruiting business if the BOA doesn’t start greenlighting their deals again.
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