GA. R. BANK &c. CO. v. RICHMOND COUNTY BOARD OF TAX ASSESSORS

53312, 53313.

142 Ga. App. 417 (1977)

236 S.E.2d 95

GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. RICHMOND COUNTY BOARD OF TAX ASSESSORS; and vice versa.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 25, 1977.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nixon, Yow, Waller & Capers, Gwinn H. Nixon, Richard E. Miley, for appellant.

Robert C. Daniel, Jr., for appellee.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs, II, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Richard L. Chambers, First Assistant Attorney General, H. Perry Michael, Senior Assistant Attorney General, James C. Pratt, Staff Assistant Attorney General, amicus curiae.


SMITH, Judge.

At issue here is the interpretation of two provisions of Code § 92-2406 which imposes a tax on the shares of the stockholders of banks or banking associations. On stipulated facts the Superior Court of Richmond County interpreted the statute to mean that the Georgia Railroad Bank & Trust Co., for taxing purposes, could deduct from the value of its shares (1) the value of only the equity it owned in its bank building in Augusta, and (2) the value...

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