State Lawmakers Kill Marion Plan for New Sales Tax

State lawmakers recently scuttled the Marion County Commission's plan to ask local voters to approve a new one percent sales tax to reduce property taxes for homeowners.
The Journal reported the Commission's plan in the June 17 newspaper. The following week the Commission made it official by placing an advertisement in the newspaper that read: "Notice is given that there will be introduced at the 2026 Special Session of the General Assembly of Georgia a bill to provide a homestead exemption from Marion County ad valorem property taxes; and for other purposes."
However, after the bill was introduced, it did not pass.
The Local Homestead Option Sales Tax (LHOST) proposal for Marion County (which was among many similar ones for other county and city gov...