The City of Covington City Council today announces its intention to increase the property taxes it will levy this year by 3.77 percent over the rollback millage rate.

Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the city.  When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the city indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held in the Council Room at 2116 Stallings Street, Covington, Georgia on July 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM and on August 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM.

To see the 2026 Public Notice of Property Tax Increase, please select here.

To see the Five Year Tax Digest and Levy, please select here.