06/13/2026
June 11, 2026
DeKalb Announces Proposed
Property Tax Increase
Public hearings scheduled on June 23 and July 7
DECATUR, Ga. – The DeKalb County Governing Authority approved a tentative 2026 millage rate of 11.635 mills and will hold three public hearings to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the proposed millage rate.
The public hearings will be held at 178 Sams Street, Decatur, Georgia 30030 (Multipurpose Room A1201) at the following dates and times:
• Tuesday, June 23 at 10 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, July 7 at 10 a.m.
When the current total digest of taxable property is prepared, Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 48-5-32.1 requires 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.
For 2026, DeKalb County’s rollback millage rate is calculated at 11.518 mills. The tentative millage rate of 11.635 mills is 0.117 mills above the rollback millage rate, an increase of 1.02 percent. Therefore, state law requires the Governing Authority to announce a property tax increase. Required notices for the millage rate adoption will be published in the Champion Newspaper, the County’s legal organ, on Thursday, June 11. Final approval of the 2026 millage rate is scheduled following the public hearing on July 7.
DeKalb County has a total of six basic tax levies. The required calculation of the rollback rate only includes taxes levied countywide for the General and Hospital Funds and does not reflect the other four levies. The combined millage rate of all six tax levies has remained flat at 20.81 mills since 2015. The adopted budget for 2026 proposed a combined 2026 millage rate for all six levies at 21.31 mills, a 0.5 mill increase.
