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title: O.C.G.A. § 48-5-27. Collection of taxes for former years.
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# O.C.G.A. § 48-5-27. Collection of taxes for former years.

Tax commissioners, tax receivers, and tax collectors shall receive returns and collect taxes due on returns for former years for which any person is in default. The taxes shall be assessed according to the law in force at the time the default occurred, and the fact of assessment according to the law in force at the time of default shall be specified in the digest.

## History

Laws 1813, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 1060; Code 1863, § 798; Code 1868, § 866; Code 1873, § 870; Code 1882, § 870; Civil Code 1895, § 855; Civil Code 1910, § 1113; Code 1933, § 92-6228; Code 1933, § 91A1027, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.