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Cobb writes off $1 million in taxes for closed businesses

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 22: Treasury Secretary's Timothy Geithner's signature can be seen on a new twenty dollar bill, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on July 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. The printing facility of Bureau of Engraving and Printing on 14th Street in Washington was until 1991 the only facility printing Federal Reserve notes until a western facility was opened in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 22: Treasury Secretary's Timothy Geithner's signature can be seen on a new twenty dollar bill, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on July 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. The printing facility of Bureau of Engraving and Printing on 14th Street in Washington was until 1991 the only facility printing Federal Reserve notes until a western facility was opened in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
By Carolyn Cunningham
Nov 30, 2016

Certain closed businesses in Cobb County will not have to pay their personal property taxes.

Approved recently by the Cobb commissioners, the write-offs of $1,013,489 cover delinquent and uncollectible taxes from 2010 to 2015, Cobb Tax Commissioner Carla Jackson wrote in a November memo to County Manager David Hankerson.

All attempts to collect outstanding taxes in person, by phone, mail and Internet access have been unsuccessful, she added.

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