The Chattooga County Tax Assessors office continues to work through a mountain of tax appeals from 2023.  The historic number of tax appeals has meant that local government agencies that rely on the property taxes are seeing money come to them at a slower pace than usual.  In normal years, taxes are due the first of December, but 2023 taxes were not due until March 1, 2024, and as of about a week ago, only 60% of 2023 property taxes had been collected.  There are still around 1,000 tax appeals out there that have to be settled.  Property owners whose taxes are still under appeal don’t have to pay taxes until their appeal is settled.