Property tax

CharlesinGA wrote:

gcloss wrote:
Charles,

I just moved to Peachtree City in Fayette County last week. I know I have to pay the TAVT on my Ram 2500 & Subaru when I register them this week.

I'm trying to figure out what I will have to pay to transfer the registration from NY to Georgia on my 2015 Jayco Eagle travel trailer.

Maybe you can give me an overview on how the TAVT will work on my travel trailer?

Thanks in advance.

The trailer, being non-motorized, will only require a title transfer fee, something like $20 if I recall (that is on the Tax Commissioners side and I am not up on the exact figures). No tax is due this year. Come your birthday next year, you will renew the registration and at that time pay a registration fee (again no more than $20 I think) and a tax on the assessed value of the trailer, which is 40% of the fair market value times the county's and cities millage rate (or rates) including school taxes. The rates for this year have been set in just the past couple of months for most counties and many cities are still working to set their rates, so the only statewide published rates are for 2016. 2016 Georgia tax millage rates.

For Fayette the following rates were in effect for 2016

FAYETTE BROOKS 0.799 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY EMS 0.456 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 3.070 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY INC - BROOKS 4.917 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY INC - FAYETTEVILLE 4.917 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY INC - PEACHTREE CITY 4.917 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY INC - TYRONE 4.917 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY UNINCORPORATED 4.917 0.000
FAYETTE COUNTY WIDE EMERGENCY SERVICES 0.210 0.000
FAYETTE FAYETTEVILLE 3.874 0.000
FAYETTE PEACHTREE CITY 6.756 0.309
FAYETTE SCHOOL 19.750 1.350
FAYETTE STATE 0.000 0.000
FAYETTE TAD FAYETTEVILLE
FAYETTE TYRONE 2.889 0.000

PTC has its own fire and ambulance so you do not pay the Fayette EMS or county fire dist. except for the county wide EMS.

Fayette has some of the best schools in the state, so don't gripe about the millage rate, many of the worst counties have millage rates only slightly less than that.

County tax is 4.917
City tax is 6.756
School tax is 19.750
Countywide EMS tax is 0.210
Total = 31.633 mills

EDIT: I forgot the bond retirement millage numbers in the right column.
PTC Bond 0.309
School Bond 1.350
Total = 1.659
Grand total = 33.292

Move your decimal three places to the left and you get .033292
If your Jayco is worth $20K fair market, then the assessed value is $8000 and this times the .033292 equals $266.34 in tax plus the small tag fee.

Charles