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How your property tax values are determined. Hint, it's a yearlong process
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Hall County Tax Assessors Office deputy appraisal clerk Clarissa Flores, left, helps Bobbie Stafford with her paperwork Friday, July 26, 2019, at the Hall County Government Center. - photo by Scott Rogers
As the rush of the summer housing market begins to fade, the Hall County Tax Assessors office is looking at those sales prices to determine 2020 tax values and still reviewing appeals from 2019 tax bills. It’s a yearlong process to assess the 78,500 properties in Hall. Tax assessments are sent out in the spring, the deadline to appeal was May 28, and tax bills are issued in the fall.It’s also an ever-changing market, but the office is required to set values as close as possible to what properties are selling for, which requires both watching sales and keeping up with improvements or changes made to properties.