2020 Georgia Code
Title 48 - Revenue and Taxation
Chapter 5 - Ad Valorem Taxation of Property
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 48-5-4. Ad Valorem Taxation of Property of Federal Corporations and Agencies

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 48-5-4 (2020)
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Except as prohibited by the Constitution and laws of the United States, all property owned or possessed in this state by a corporation organized under the laws of the United States or owned or possessed by an agency of the United States engaged in this state in proprietary, as distinguished from governmental, activities shall be subject to ad valorem taxation in this state at the same rate and in the same manner as the property of private corporations owning property in this state and engaged in similar businesses. All laws relating to ad valorem taxation of private corporations shall apply to ad valorem taxation of agencies of the United States and corporations organized under the laws of the United States.

(Ga. L. 1939, p. 95, § 1; Code 1933, § 91A-1005, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 71 Am. Jur. 2d, State and Local Taxation, § 154.

C.J.S.

- 84 C.J.S., Taxation, §§ 232, 233.

ALR.

- Applicability of state license tax law to property or business of individual on land owned by federal government, 46 A.L.R. 224.

State tax on goods purchased by, or for the benefit of, the federal government, or on the privilege of conducting the business in connection with which the sales are made, 140 A.L.R. 621.

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