PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) has signed an agreement with Cobb County, Georgia, to provide commercial privatization of the county’s commercial/industrial tax division using Tyler’s CLT Appraisal Services™.
Through this commercial privatization project, CLT Appraisal Services will work under the direction of the Cobb County director/chief appraiser to handle the day-to-day activities of commercial/industrial property valuation. Services include data collection, site reviews, defending values at all appeal levels, customer service and other associated responsibilities for the annual assessment and tax cycle of commercial/industrial properties in compliance with the adopted procedures of the Cobb County Board of Tax Assessors and Georgia law.
Cobb County has been a CLT Appraisal Services client since 1998. Tyler’s CLT Appraisal Services staff will conduct a complete review and valuation of the county’s more than 13,700 commercial/industrial properties for ad valorem tax purposes for the 2017 tax year. Staff will then perform ongoing regular maintenance, review and mass appraisal of all commercial/industrial properties in the county for ad valorem purposes. The privatization project is scheduled to end in 2020.
The county also uses Tyler’s iasWorld® property appraisal and tax administration software to manage the county’s computer-assisted mass appraisal and tax billing and collection needs. Additionally, the county implemented iasWorld Public Access™ to provide taxpayers with an online gateway to property and tax data.
Tyler’s CLT Appraisal Services — the country’s only national mass appraisal services company — has appraised more than 30 million parcels across 46 states.
Cobb County, located northwest of Atlanta, has approximately 731,000 residents and is Georgia’s third largest county. Marietta is Cobb County’s largest city and county seat.
About Tyler Technologies, Inc.
Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) is a leading provider of end-to-end information management solutions and services for local governments. Tyler partners with clients to empower the public sector — cities, counties, schools and other government entities — to become more efficient, more accessible and more responsive to the needs of citizens. Tyler’s client base includes more than 13,000 local government offices in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and other international locations. Forbes has named Tyler one of “America’s Best Small Companies” eight times and the company has been included six times on the Barron’s 400 Index, a measure of the most promising companies in America. More information about Plano-based Tyler Technologies can be found at www.tylertech.com.
