Fulton chief appraiser set for Twitter chat

Fulton County Chief Appraiser Burt Manning will answer questions in a Twitter chat from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday.

Manning will address the property-tax assessment notices that went out last week, which have ignited controversy after a computer glitch caused most of Atlanta's estimated taxes to be inflated. The notices also erroneously included last year's homestead exemption, which increased this year from $25,000 to $30,000.

Manning has said his office lacked data tables with the new figures, so he used last year's exemptions rather than leaving out exemptions altogether.