O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 48-8-31 (2019)

Tax computation to be carried to third decimal place; rounding

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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Tax computation must be carried to the third decimal place, and the tax must be rounded to a whole cent using a method that rounds up to the next cent whenever the third decimal place is greater than four.

History

Ga. L. 1951, p. 360, § 22; Code 1933, § 91A-4531, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p.

309, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1857, § 40; Ga. L. 2010, p. 662, § 8/HB 1221.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Bracket system valid when no more than 3 percent tax on fractional part of dollar. - Bracket system which does not require the payment and collection of more than the necessary amount of coinage required to pay and collect the 3 percent levied on sales of a fractional part of a dollar is not contrary to the legislative grant of authority to the commissioner. Hawes v. Phillips, 122 Ga. App. 714, 178 S.E.2d 759, 1970 Ga. App. LEXIS 1011 (1970). Bracket system illegal if overpayment results. - Bracket system which requires

the payment or collection of more tax than that contemplated by the General Assembly, that is, to collect a whole cent of tax where a fractional part of a cent of tax (by mathematical calculation) is involved, would exceed the authority granted. Hawes v. Phillips, 122 Ga. App. 714, 178 S.E.2d 759, 1970 Ga. App. LEXIS 1011 (1970).