Taxes in Roswell
Roswell residents pay a property tax bill layered across the city, Fulton County, and Fulton County Schools -- the city's own portion is low, fixed, and precisely sourced (recently cited as its lowest in 17 years), but the total combined effective rate depends on county and school millage this pass could not resolve to one precise, city-specific figure. Beyond property tax, Georgia's flat state income tax is falling on an accelerated schedule, and the local sales tax picture shows the same disclosed discrepancy flagged for Sandy Springs.
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Learn moreThe city's own rate: low, stable, and precisely sourced
The City of Roswell's municipal property tax millage rate is 4.949 mills for tax year 2025, adopted by City Council on September 22, 2025 -- unchanged for three consecutive years and cited as the lowest Maintenance & Operations millage the city has set in 17 years. This is only the municipal layer of the bill; Fulton County's general-fund millage and the Fulton County Schools millage also apply on top of it, and this pass did not resolve those two layers to a precise, Roswell-specific combined figure.
Fulton County's overall effective rate: cited two ways
Fulton County-wide, the median effective property tax rate is cited at 1.05% by one source and 0.88% by another (the latter citing a median annual bill of $4,033 on a home worth $458,800) -- both real, current figures that simply disagree, consistent with the same Fulton County disclosure gap already flagged in this dataset's Atlanta, Alpharetta, and Sandy Springs records. Actual bills also vary by city-level millage within the county -- Roswell's own comparatively low 4.949-mill rate, versus Atlanta's own higher municipal rate, illustrates how much that layer matters on top of the county baseline.
A flat, falling state income tax -- with a genuinely tangled recent legislative history
Georgia's flat personal income tax rate is 4.99% as of 2026. That figure has a real, worth-disclosing legislative wrinkle: HB 111 originally set a schedule of 0.10-percentage-point annual cuts starting in 2026 that wouldn't have reached 4.99% until 2028, but HB 463, signed in May 2026, accelerated the timeline to reach 4.99% immediately as of January 1, 2026. There is no Georgia state estate or inheritance tax.
Sales tax: the same disclosed discrepancy flagged for Sandy Springs
One source cites Fulton County's combined minimum sales tax rate at 8.9% county-wide, while a separate source cites Roswell's own specific combined minimum rate at 7.75% -- the identical discrepancy pattern this dataset also discloses for Sandy Springs, possibly reflecting which special-purpose district levies (MARTA, SPLOST, and similar) apply inside city limits specifically versus the county-wide blended figure. Confirm the current rate for a specific purchase rather than relying on either figure as definitive.
Key takeaways
- The City of Roswell's own municipal millage rate is 4.949 mills for tax year 2025 -- unchanged for three years and the lowest M&O rate the city has set in 17 years -- but this is only the city layer; Fulton County and Fulton County Schools millage also apply, and this pass could not resolve those to one precise combined city-specific rate.
- Fulton County's median effective property tax rate is cited at both 1.05% and 0.88% (the latter with a $4,033/yr median bill on a $458,800 home) across two real sources -- a disclosed, unresolved gap consistent with this dataset's other Fulton County places.
- Georgia's flat state income tax is 4.99% as of 2026 -- HB 463 (signed May 2026) accelerated an original HB 111 schedule that would not have reached 4.99% until 2028. No state estate or inheritance tax.
- Sales tax sourcing disagrees the same way it does for Sandy Springs: Fulton County's combined minimum is cited at 8.9% county-wide versus 7.75% specifically for Roswell -- confirm the current rate for a specific purchase rather than treating either as settled.
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