The Georgia Agriculture Tax Exemption program (GATE) rules were only released in January but the impact of the rollout is already having a positive impact on Georgia farmers. The program is an agricultural sales and use tax exemption certificate issued by the Department of Agriculture that identifies its user as a qualified farmer or agricultural [...]
Georgia is all about economic growth. But economic growth and economic freedom are not one and the same. Private investors have been calling for reforms to make Georgia more friendly toward capital formation for years now, the venture capital and angel investment that is key to fueling Georgia’s growing entrepreneurial community. So one has to [...]
County governments, municipal governments, and boards of education love SPLOSTs -Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Taxpayers vote on whether or not to impose the extra sales tax and it must be proposed for a specific list of projects, which can include particular educational facilities, infrastructure improvements, public service improvements, etc. The biggest catch in [...]
There may be things happening on your property that you aren’t aware of and, yes, they are disturbing. Currently, if you own property in one of a number of Georgia counties, you may be paying for things on your property tax bill that aren’t related to property taxes. House Bill 159 aims to clear up [...]
Conservatives on Capitol Hill, locked in the fiscal cliff hanger, are beginning to realize the reality of an incalcitrant Left with whom they are “negotiating”; namely, they seem altogether ambivalent about the real fiscal impact on the Country. The entire debate is reminiscent of Heath Ledger’s “Joker” character of Dark Knight fame, nose-to-nose with a [...]
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