O.C.G.A. § 48-5-84 (2019)
Penalties for willfully filing incorrect information
(a) The following penalties shall be imposed on any person who willfully files information required under Code Sections 48-5-72, 48-5-72.1, and 48-5-78 which is incorrect:
(1) The person shall pay the total amount of taxes and interest deferred, which amount shall immediately become due;
(2) The person shall be disqualified from filing a homestead tax deferral application for the next three years; and
(3) The person shall pay a penalty of 25 percent of the total amount of taxes and interest deferred.
(b) Any person against whom the penalties prescribed in this Code section have been imposed may appeal the penalties imposed to the county board of equalization within 30 days after the penalties are imposed.
History
Code 1933, § 91A-2414, enacted by Ga.
L. 1980, p. 1707, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1857, § 31; Ga. L. 1988, p. 466, § 2.
ARTICLE 3 COUNTY TAX OFFICIALS AND ADMINISTRATION
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Exemption from taxation of the property of a Y.M.C.A. or Y.W.C.A., 34 A.L.R. 1067; 81 A.L.R. 1453. Homestead as subject to assessment for local improvements, 79 A.L.R. 712. Reservation of option or conditions in conveyance which may operate to defeat or extinguish title of exempt grantee as affecting exemption of real estate from taxation, 98 A.L.R. 1372. Constitutionality of statutes relieving property subject to assessment for improvements from all or part of such assessment, 105 A.L.R. 1169. Validity and construction of statute or ordinance providing for relief of poor persons from taxes, 123 A.L.R. 597. Constitutionality, construction, and application of statutes which exempt from taxation mineral land or land used or suitable for growing of certain products or
which discriminate in favor of such land, 126 A.L.R. 724. Enforcement against tax-exempt property of tax on nonexempt property or on owner of tax-exempt property, 159 A.L.R. 461. Tax exemptions and the contract clause, 173 A.L.R. 15. Statutory provision that specified fund or property shall be “exempt from taxation,” “exempt from any tax,” or the like, as exempting such property from estate or succession taxes, 47 A.L.R.2d 999. Legislative power to exempt from taxation property, purposes, or uses additional to those specified in Constitution, 61 A.L.R.2d 1031. When is corporation, community chest, fund, foundation, or club “organized and operated exclusively” for charitable or other exempt purposes under Internal Revenue Code, 69 A.L.R.2d 871.
PART 1 TAX RECEIVERS Cross references. Consolidation of offices of tax receiver and tax collector into office of tax commis-
sioner, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. I, Para. III.