Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner Tiffany Porter must abide by a tax billing contract the city of Grayson entered into with the county commission earlier this year, a judge ruled on Friday.
Grayson’s contract with the county had been the subject of a lawsuit between the city and Porter. The contract calls for Porter’s staff to do the city’s tax billing without paying the tax commissioner an additional fee beyond reimbursing the office for expenses incurred printing and sending out the bills and processing payments.
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