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Upcoming Holiday Closings:
Veterans Day
Friday, November 10, 2023
Thanksgiving
Thursday & Friday, November 23-24, 2023
Christmas
Monday & Tuesday, December 25-26, 2023
Excess Funds
- To request a current list of Excess Funds and/or File a Claim for Excess Funds please send an email to excessfunds@weissman.law
Property Tax Payments Online
Visit online payments or call 1-877-575-7233.
Note: Must have tax bill number available.
Property Tax Sale Registration Form
Note: Must be filled out neatly and sent with a copy of your driver's license. You can email them to kmwimbley@washingtoncountyga.gov or taxcomm@washingtoncountyga.gov
Property tax exemptions
All exemptions the State allows plus, Local $10,000 exemption for the elderly provided they qualify Applications for Homestead are handled in the Tax Assessor’s Office
Motor Vehicle Information
A valid GA Driver's License or state-issued ID must be presented for all motor vehicle title and registration transactions.
Individuals
Individuals have a thirty-day period before their birthday to register their vehicle. This period ends at midnight on the birthday of the first person listed on the title and/ or tag registration (tag receipt).
Businesses
The registration period depends on the first letter of the business name (the name listed first on the vehicle's title and/or tag registration certificate).
Listed below is the schedule:
- A or B: January M or N: July
- C or D: February O or Phone: August
- E or Fax: March Q or R: September
- G or H: April S or Phone: October
- I or J: May U, V, or W: November
- K or L: June X, Y, or Z: December
Registrations for businesses expire at midnight of the last day of their month of registration unless they also have one of the following:
- IRP (International Registration Plan) - Vehicles weighing over 26,000 pounds and operating interstate (traveling outside of GA) Vehicles operating interstate must obtain an apportioned license plate. For IRP vehicles, the registration period depends on the first letter of the business name (the name listed first on the vehicle's title and/or tag registration certificate). If you are an individual and primary owner, use the first character of your last name (as shown on the vehicle's cab card) to determine your registration month. Use the schedule listed above. Apportioned (IRP) license plates are issued by the Department of Revenue's Motor Vehicle Division.
Registrations for IRP expire at midnight on the last day of their month of registration.
- Non-IRP Weighing over 26,000 Pounds and Trucks Transporting Forest Products
The registration period for these vehicles is December 1st through February 15th.
Forest products include pulpwood, pulpwood chips, logs, raw gum, fuel, wood, bark, pine straw, pinecones, and other unprocessed products of the forest. It does not include lumber, which is a manufactured product, or any other product manufactured or distilled from the trees of the forest.
Owners of truck or truck-tractors to whom forest product tags have been issued may transport skidders, tractors, loaders, and other logging equipment owned by the owner of such truck or truck-tractors.
Registrations for these vehicles expire at midnight on February 15th.
Important Links:
Renew Registration : https://eservices.drives.ga.gov/_/
Cancel Registration: https://eservices.drives.ga.gov/_/
Pay Insurance Lapse Fines: https://eservices.drives.ga.gov/_/
TAVT Calculator: https://eservices.drives.ga.gov/_/
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Jeannette Anderson
Tax Commissioner
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Kodi Wimberly
Deputy Tax Commissioner
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Shemiah Marshall
Clerk I
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Tax Commissioner
Physical Address
115 Jones Street
Sandersville, GA 31082
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 469
Sandersville, GA 31082
Phone: 478-552-2144Fax: 478-552-7485
Hours
Monday through Friday9 am - 4:45 pm