Over taxation in Grady County - example

ANDP’s report, prepared by Robert Charles Lesser & Co., breaks out the three ZIP codes with the most foreclosures in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties and the average amount homeowners overpaid their taxes for 2009.

The study took sales values from the second half of 2008 and contrasted those numbers to the value the county set on the same property.

Analysts then calculated what the tax assessment would have been based on sales figures, compared to actual assessments on the same properties.

Ammo for appeals?

In the 15 ZIP codes with the most foreclosures, the average overpayment for 2009 was $491, the report says. Here are the ZIPs and the total estimated overpayment in each:

● Clayton: 30238, 30274 and 30296, $17 million overpayment.

● Cobb: 30168, 30127, and 30126, $8 million overpayment.

● DeKalb: 30038, 30058 and 30032, $16 million overpayment.

● Fulton: 30310, 30315 and 30331, $24 million overpayment.

● Gwinnett: 30039, 30045 and 30044, $17 million overpayment.

In DeKalb’s 30058, Henry-Frisby’s ZIP code, the average overpayment in 2009 was $391.

“There is a lot I can do with that money,” she said.

Harkness said she doesn’t have much hope of getting back the $513 ANDP’s report says was the average overpayment in her ZIP, 30032.

“But it is good to know, and it gives me something else to work with when I appeal this year,” she said.

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