PDF: Whitfield Taxes BY THE NUMBERSProperty values: Down 6 percentRevenue for 2011: Down at least $370,0002010 budget: $45 millionSource: Whitfield County government
Tax revenues could fall markedly in Whitfield County next year with what the county tax assessor estimates is a 6 percent reduction in property values.
That amounts to about a $370,000 reduction in tax revenue for 2011, said Tax Assessor Trammel Suddeth. The 2010 tax digest is estimated to be about $2.9 billion, compared to $3.1 billion digest in 2009 and an all-time high of $3.2 billion in 2008, tax records show.
The tax digest is the total amount of property from which the county derives tax income.
The estimate doesn’t account for the county’s new freeport exemption, a tax break for some business inventories.