As McIntosh County prepares the annual property tax bill for its residents, the county is dealing with some pressing communication from its own tax authority: the Georgia Department of Revenue.
The agency is ordering McIntosh to make equitable and uniform assessments or face a $63,070 penalty.
The county must provide its Board of Assessors with the equipment, personnel, supplies, transportation and software necessary to ensure that 2025 assessments can pass the state’s review, according to one of the top points in a consent order signed by the county and the state last month.
The order refers back to the 2022 tax year, when the state found deficiencies in McIntosh’s treatment of homes and public utilities and noted that the county had failed to correct prior problems.
The assessments of all of Georgia’s 159 countries are checked annually. A third of them each year receive a detailed review. Of the 53 countries more reviewed in 2022, McIntosh was only one of two counties to receive a monetary penalty, $5 per taxable parcel.
