More than 100 calls had been received by the end of the work day Monday.
Some property owners say their assessments have increased 40 percent or more. Others say their assessments doubled or even tripled.
Talk of the assessments dominated The Martha Zoller Show on WDUN NEWS TALK 550 Tuesday.
"I'm paying over 200 (dollars) a month to the government just to live," said one caller. "I don't see why they don't just take over all the land and just let us pay rent."
Said another: "We just keep going up and up and up and up and up."
But, still another caller said "They (the other callers) better be glad they're not in Dawson County because they went up on my taxes $145,000."
Hall County Chief Tax Assessor James Cantrell says the county is trying to close the gap between assessments and fair market value.
Cantrell says the county had not updated some of its criteria for assessments in over five years and that, along with soaring growth, has caused the jump, nearly 100 percent in some cases.
He said the county checked 1,000 neighborhoods in the county and reworked construction cost tables as part of the reassessment. Cantrell says the two were then combined for new assessments affecting the entire scope of property in the county - developed and undeveloped.
Cantrell said appeals can filed by May 5 but that any errors found will take affect, good or bad.
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