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In the present and future scenario of public administration, distinct challenges are and will be fixed. This research article discusses these challenges and solutions for a better future perspective of public administration. The changing role of public administration is associated with various paradigmatic shifts, viz, from despotism to democracy; from traditional public administration to new public administration/management; from an interdisciplinary to multi-disciplinary perspective; and from public administration to e-public administration. To face the new realities of liberalisation and globalisation, various conferences, discussion forums and workshops are being organised and working papers published universally, to consider these paradigmatic shifts and discuss the challenges associated with public administration. The vision of public administration is reliant on the performance of government. The intellectual and comprehensive interchange of ideas by the academic and administrative communities is needed to develop all aspects of this unique discipline. Learning from past mistakes and modifying the present intellectually will definitely lead to a brighter future for public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the tax assessment administration of Atlanta-Fulton County prior to 1979 and the problems and developments associated with it. It discusses developments during the 1980s intended to overcome tax assessment problems. Atlanta-Fulton County's tax assessment administration prior to 1979 relied heavily on manual procedures for conducting valuation of property to determine the tax obligation of the property owner. This approach contributed to infrequent revaluation of property, over and under assessment of property owners, tax inequities, and continued distortion of the tax digest which effectively meant that the county deprived itself of available revenues. In 1979 a computerized appraisal system was installed to eliminate or at least alleviate these problems. The system shares similar features to other automated systems and indeed has the capacity to conduct annual revaluations and significantly reduce the tax inequities that have plagued Atlanta-Fulton County for many years. In Georgia, as in all other states, local tax assessments are made on real and personal properties. The former consists of land and structure thereon. Property tax assessment may be done by one or a combination of fair market value approach (FMVA), cost approach, and income approach. Georgia state law mandates that assessed value must be obtained on the principal basis of FMVA.