Press Releases: 2021

The Department of Revenue’s new centralized alcohol application process is designated for retail alcohol initial registrations and renewal licensing. With this new system, all local and state retail alcohol applications will uniformly be submitted through the Georgia Tax Center.

Atlanta, GA – The Department of Revenue’s Athens Regional Office is moving to a new facility at 1047 Summit Grove Drive, Building 100, Suite 101, Watkinsville, Georgia 30677. The main phone number will remain (706) 389-6977. 

During this system upgrade, the DRIVES (Driver Record and Integrated Vehicle Enterprise System), including DDS Online Services and DRIVES e-Services, will be unavailable beginning Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 7:00 pm through Monday, January 3, 2022.

The State of Georgia’s net tax collections in November totaled $2.29 billion, for an increase of $332.7 million, or 17 percent, compared to November 2020, when net tax collections totaled $1.96 billion.  Year-to-date, net tax revenue collections totaled $11.87 billion, for an increase of nearly $1.70 billion, or 16.7 percent, over FY 2021.

The State of Georgia’s net tax collections in October approached $2.48 billion, for an increase of $460.7 million, or 22.9 percent, compared to October 2020, when net tax collections totaled roughly $2.02 billion.  Year-to-date, net tax revenue collections totaled nearly $9.58 billion, for an increase of $1.36 billion, or 16.6 percent, over FY 2021.

State Revenue Commissioner, Robyn A. Crittenden, was named to the Atlanta Business League's list of Top 100 Women of Influence for 2021 during the Women of Vision Breakfast.

Gov. Brian Kemp announced today that Georgia’s September net tax collections totaled nearly $2.82 billion, for an increase of $655 million, or 30.3 percent, compared to last year when net tax collections totaled $2.16 billion. Year-to-date and through the end of one quarter, net tax revenue collections totaled $7.10 billion, for an increase of $903.7 million, or 14.6 percent, compared to FY 2021.

Today, State Revenue Commissioner Robyn Crittenden announced an innovative leadership team at the Georgia Department of Revenue. To streamline services for taxpayers, the Department has re-organized key divisions within the functional areas of Tax Operations, Agency Operations, and Governance & Planning.

The State of Georgia’s net tax collections in the first month of FY 2022 approached $2.16 billion for an increase of $8.7 million, or 0.4 percent, compared to July 2020 (FY 2021), when net tax collections totaled roughly $2.15 billion.  Gross tax revenue receipts in July totaled $2.92 billion, for an increase of $187.2 million, or 6.8 percent, over July 2020, when gross tax revenue totaled $2.73 billion.

The State of Georgia’s June net tax collections totaled $2.50 billion for an increase of $563.1 million, or 29.1 percent, compared to June 2020 when net tax collections totaled nearly $1.94 billion as of June 30, 2020.  For the year-ended June 30, 2021, net tax collections totaled almost $26.90 billion for an increase approaching $3.20 billion, or 13.5 percent, compared to Fiscal Year 2020 (FY ’20), when the final net tax revenues – adjusted as of August 7, 2020, to include deferred FY ’20 related tax deadline payments received in July of FY ’21 – totaled $23.70 billion.