O.C.G.A. § 33-8-3 (2019)
License fees of insurance companies generally
(a) Each and every insurance company, domestic, foreign, or alien, carrying on an insurance business in Georgia shall pay to the Commissioner, annually in advance, on or before July 1, a license fee in an amount as provided in Code Section 33-8-1, which payment shall be in lieu of all other license fees of said companies. Foreign companies entering the state and domestic companies beginning business at any time during the license year as fixed by this Code section shall pay said license fee in full for the remaining portion of that license year.
(b) The license fees provided for in Code Section 33-8-1 are expressly imposed on and shall be the obligation of the licensees.
History
Code 1933, § 56-1309, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 729, § 2; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 33;
Ga. L. 1985, p. 1399, § 5; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2725, § 12.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS County taxing power preempted prior to 1984. - O.C.G.A. § 33-8-8.2, effective January 1, 1984, does not affect the validity of a DeKalb county license tax imposed for the years 1974 through 1981, when preemption of the county’s power to tax casualty insurance companies could be fairly implied from the sweeping lan-
guage and broad scope of the 1960 general Act regulating the insurance industry on a state-wide basis, and particularly from the state-wide gross premium tax on casualty insurance companies contained in O.C.G.A. § 33-8-4. Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. DeKalb County, 251 Ga. 309, 304 S.E.2d 386 (1983).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 43 Am. Jur. 2d, Insurance, §§ 30, 43.
C.J.S. - 44 C.J.S., Insurance, § 77 et seq.
ALR. - What organizations are within provisions of tax statutes relating to insurance companies, 146 A.L.R. 454.