Legal Opinion
Marsh v. Clarke County School District
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 15, 2012No. S12A1568PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Presiding Justice.
This is a mandamus action in which a taxpayer seeks a writ requiring a school district to return “excess proceeds” collected pursuant to an educational sales and use tax approved by referendum. The superior court denied the writ, the taxpayer appealed, and we affirm.
In 2001, voters in the Clarke County School District approved a one percent educational sales and use tax (ELOST) for a period of five years beginning immediately upon the expiration of an ELOST that had been approved in 1997. The purpose of the referendum was to provide funds to pay the cost of…
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