The Cobb Tax Assessor’s Office on Friday sent out 2026 property tax assessments with a number of changes in the notices, due to a new state law.
The changes include a place for homeowners to notify their county tax commissioner if they’re no longer eligible for a homestead exemption, a new box including current and previous year’s fair market value and a new box listing the “estimated tax savings associated with the exemptions, credits, or preferential assessment programs” indicated in another part of the notice.
The changes were prompted by the passage this year in the Georgia legislature of SB 566, which was to make property tax assessment notices easier to understand (more details here and you can watch the video below).
Legislators have been responding in recent years to concerns from property owners over rising assessments.
Friday’s mailings by Cobb are notices of assessment only and not property tax bills—those will go out in August and will be due in October.
Cobb Tax Assessor Christine Stinchcomb is estimating that the Cobb tax digest for 2026 will grow by around four percent.
The Cobb Board of Education in May adopted a fiscal year 2026 budget of nearly $1.9 billion that reflects that projection, although the formal digest total will be determined in July.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners will be holding budget sessions in July, after the fiscal year 2027 proposal is presented. They heard budget requests from department heads in April and a formal budget proposal is to be made on June 23.
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