Marion County Commission Chairman Gene HargisJASPER, Tenn. – The push to reduce Marion County’s property tax rate for the 2014-15 fiscal year has begun.
At last week’s Marion County Commission meeting, Commissioner Jodi Rollins made a motion to decrease the county’s tax rate by 15 cents.
Marion’s tax rate has been a hot topic since the board voted to raise it 50 cents in August 2011 to overcome a $1.5 million budget shortfall and avoid a county government shutdown.
The tax rate has remained at $2.1686 per $100 ever since.
“I amen what [Rollins] said,” Commissioner Tommy Thompson said. “But I would recommend that it [the decrease] be 20 cents.”