In the last year, few things have been as contentious in Hall County as reassessments in value on lakefront homes and commercial businesses, sending tax bills for some property owners through the roof. Lake properties rose in value by an average of 39 percent in 2014, prompting more than 5,000 appeals. And reassessments this spring have driven up values on about 60 percent of 4,200 commercial and industrial properties in the county, with an average net increase of 27 percent, according to the tax assessor’s office.
To outsource or not? Hall officials debate how to pay for property reassessments
County has spent $480,000 in two years