PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING A PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX
INCREASE
The City of Brunswick Commission today announces its intention to increase the 2025
property taxes it will levy this year by 8.18 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 city. When the trend of prices on
properties that have recently sold in the city 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 the last year's millage rate would have produced had no
reassessments occurred.
The budget tentatively adopted by the City of Brunswick Com mission requires a
millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the City of
Brunswick Commission may finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate,
Georgia law require three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity
to express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held
at the Old City Hall, 1229 Newcastle Street, Brunswick, Georgia on Tuesday, August 12,
2025 at 12p.m. and 6:00 p.m. and final hearing on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 6:00
p.m.
