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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 Charles, Thanks for the information. It is a big help.664Views0likes0CommentsRe: Property tax
CharlesinGA wrote: Ivylog wrote: Georgia used to tax you every year when you got your tag but now you pay a one time use/sales tax of 6.7%. At 62 years old, $36K of income tax (6%)/person is free and at 65 it goes to $65K each making GA retirement friendly. Depending on the county, property taxes are very low...$7/1000 dollars of value, BUT in the Atlanta area it can be double that amount. In Georgia the tax is known as the Title Ad Valorem Tax (TAVT). It is literally a tax on the value of the title. There are no sales or use taxes on MOTOR vehicles in Georgia. Trailers such as cargo, utility, travel trailers, fivers, etc, are still taxed each year on the particular county's millage rate where the trailer is registered (which if you have a homestead exemption, must be the county of residence). The TAVT applies to any vehicle re-titled, purchased, or brought into the state. Some tax rates are lower for transfers within family, and the rate is currently 7% and is frozen thru 2018. after that a re-evaluation of the tax rate will be preformed and the state can raise or leave alone the precentage. It is capped at 9% by law. For a short period of time after the TAVT went into effect, owners of vehicles purchased prior to March 1, 2013 were allowed to switch to the new system, however that has passed into history. When a vehicle under the old system is transferred to a new owner, the vehicle falls under the new system. As with almost any tax, you have a right to appeal of the value, and you appeal that value to the Board of Assessors in the county in which you registered and titled the vehicle. You must pay the full tax in good faith while the appeal is on-going. They are usually handled in a very timely manner as the locals BOA's really do not want to handle these appeals and have established procedures to expedite the appeals. Disclosure: I am the chairman of the county Board of Assessors of the county in which I reside in Georgia. Charles Vehicles purchased prior to March 1, 2013 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.665Views0likes0CommentsRe: Is there a high end TT other than Airstream?
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