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Fulton Assessor Fixes Some Notices

If you haven't filed an appeal with the Board of Equalization don't expect to be one of the 945 property owners who will get a new notice.

The Fulton County Assessors’ Office has mailed approximately 945 corrected assessment notices to owners affected by a coding problem in the appraisal system.

According to Chief Appraiser David Fitzgibbon, the notices are for parcels that should have had the values frozen by appeals to the Board of Equalization.

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Fitzgibbon said a small group of parcels failed to roll over the code in the system that maintains the previous year’s value from a BOE decision and the value changed.

The glitch in the system was discovered through ongoing quality control checks, said Fitzgibbon, who added that all corrections were made to all parcels affected.

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“The code, which holds the value to the prior year’s value, was removed in the calculation process was not discovered until the notices had been mailed,” said Fitzgibbon.

“Parcels with this error make up a very small group of parcels,” he added, “Especially when compared to the total number of assessment notices mailed.”

Fitzgibbon said that added measures will be instituted in the system to ensure the problem does not occur again.

All owners receiving corrected notices have 45 days from the date on the notice to file an appeal if they do not agree with the value on the notice.


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