NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE

The City of Waycross has tentatively adopted a millage rate that will require an increase of 0.92 percent.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. at City Hall, 417 Pendleton Street, Waycross, Georgia on Wednesday, August 4, 2021. 

The time and place of an additional public hearing on this tax increase is at 4:00 p.m. on August 17, 2021, at City Hall, 417 Pendleton Street, Waycross, Georgia. This tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 11.876 mills, an increase of 0.108 mills.  Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 11.768 mills.  The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $100,000 is approximately $4.32 and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $125,000 is approximately $5.40.