Last year voters, the wee people, approved the referendum on HB 581 establishing a floating homestead tax exemption. In DeKalb it was a bit of a landslide garnering 52% approval. None of these voters are elected DeKalb officials or hired bureaucrats. So these folks, elected and hired, would really, really like to opt out. Which is allowed.
But...
Opting out kicks in some procedure changes around sales taxes, of which we have a few here in DeKalb. It is really painful as the EHOST is conjoined with a SPLOST and when combined with other local sales taxes, exceeds the 2% limit that opting out would incur.
Oh, the humanity!
The county's lobbyist, yes, they have a lobbyist, is down at the gold dome trying to get a legislative loophole put in place. Nothing will deter them from getting their hands on more of your money.
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