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Joyce Merritt
Chief Appraiser
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Office Location: 111 S Sheridan St Fitzgerald, GA 31750 (229) 426-5147
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Office Hours:
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The Tax Assessors Office provides the following services to Ben Hill County Residents:
Property Search
Department Personnel:
Appraiser I: Greg Freeman Appraiser II: Kathy Whaley
Filing Deadlines:
April 1st
- Homestead Exemption Applications for current year
- Business Personal Property Returns
- Marine Personal Property Returns
- ForestLand Covenant
- Aircraft Personal Property Returns
- Freeport Exemptions Applications � To receive the full 100% exemption
- Conservation Covenant Applications
- Preferential Covenant Applications
May 1st
- Manufactured Home deadline for displaying current year's decal
FORMS:
- PT-50R
Taxpayer's Return of Real Property * For returning real property and improvements.
- PT-50A
Aircraft Personal Property Tax Return For returning airplanes, rotocraft, and lighter than air vehicles.
- PT-50M
Marine Personal Property Tax Return For returning boats and motors that include all craft in and above the water.
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PT-50P Business Personal Property Tax Return For returning personal property of a business: furniture, fixtures, machinery, equipment, inventory, freeport inventory, aircraft, boats and motors, and other personal property.
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PT-50PF Application For Freeport Exemption Inventory To accompany the Business Personal Property Tax Return when filing for freeport exemption in a county/city that has passed freeport.
- PT-41
Dealer's Statement of Sale of Mobile Home *To be completed by the dealer upon the sale of a mobile home after January 1.
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PT-95 Request for Apportionment of Ad Valorem Assessment on Vehicles Engaged in Interstate Commerce Form to be completed for apportionment of motor vehicles and trailers engaged in Interstate Commerce
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PT-230 Application for Preferential Agricultural Assessment This assessment provides for the valuation of agricultural property at 30% of fair market value rather than 40%.
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PT-283A Application for Conservation Use Assessment of Agricultural Property This assessment provides for the valuation of agricultural property at current use value rather than fair market value.
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PT-283E Application for Conservation Use Assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Property This assessment provides for the valuation of environmentally sensitive property at current use value rather than fair market value.
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PT-283R Application for Conservation Use Assessment of Residential Transitional Property This assessment provides for the valuation of residential transitional property at current use value rather than fair market value.
- PT-283T
Report of Timber Sale or Harvest To be completed upon the sale or harvest of standing timber.
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PT-440 Return of Business License Taxes All financial institutions are required to file in all jurisdictions that impose the business license tax.
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PT-507A Heavy-Duty Equipment Dealer Monthly Sales Return This form to be completed by the selling dealer no later than thirty (30) days after the last day of the month of heavy-duty equipment purchased by in-state purchasers.
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PT-507B Heavy-Duty Equipment Motor Vehicle Tax Computation Form To be calculated by selling dealer and tax collected from the out-of-state purchaser by the dealer at the time of sale and remitted no later than last day of the month following sale.
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