Public hearings are scheduled at Dunwoody City Hall on June 16 and 30
Last week, the City of Dunwoody issued two press releases regarding property tax rates for 2025 — a state-required release in the format prescribed by the Georgia Department of Revenue and a separate release to give context to the issue.
State-required information
On June 5, the City of Dunwoody announced its intention to increase the 2025 property taxes it will levy this year by 3.61 percent over the rollback millage rate.
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 must 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 reassessments occurred.
The budget tentatively adopted by the City of Dunwoody requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the City of Dunwoody may finalize the tentative budget and 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.
Public hearings scheduled
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at Dunwoody City Hall, 4800 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338:
- Monday, June 16 at 8 a.m
- Monday, June 16 at 6 p.m
- Monday, June 30 at 6 p.m
Additional details and context
The City of Dunwoody is proposing to keep its millage rate the same at 3.040 mills for 2025. The tax rate for 2025 will also include a one-mill reduction for all homestead properties, lowering the effective rate to 2.040. The city will continue to freeze assessed values for those same properties.
While the state press release infers that there will be a tax increase for these properties, the combined exemptions mean that no homestead property will see a city tax bill increase this year. However, tax increases will happen for commercial properties and non-homesteaded residential properties, such as rental properties, with higher assessed values.
State law requires the value of assessments to be shown against last year’s values even if the City has a hard property assessment freeze. Due to an increase in DeKalb County’s reevaluation of real property tax assessments, the City has filed a notice of a 3.61 percent increase in property taxes using the same 3.040 millage rate as 2023 and 2024.
For more information, visit dunwoodyga.gov.
