A special election will take place this November for the Henry County tax commissioner’s position, and the Board of Commissioners voted at its regular meeting to approve the qualifying fee for that race.

By law it was set at $2,533.76 which is three percent of the lowest possible salary for the position ($84,458.82). Former tax commissioner David Curry, who served since 2009, resigned a few months ago when appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp to head the Georgia Department of Revenue. His deputy, Michael Harris, assumed the role of tax commissioner as permitted by law until the special election to fill Curry’s unexpired term, which runs through the end of 2020.

Qualifying for the race is later this month.

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Mathew Palmer, a former Delta Air Lines employee, at his home in Atlanta on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.  Palmer was fired less than two weeks after writing a post on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Natrice Miller/AJC)