Tyler Perry‘s serving to to unravel an issue created by his tremendous profitable film studio in Atlanta … seniors are seeing their property taxes leap, and he is ponying up the distinction to allow them to keep of their houses.
Sources near Tyler inform TMZ … the TV/movie mogul is donating $750,000 this yr so Atlanta’s low-income seniors aren’t compelled out of their houses on account of rising property taxes.
There’s plenty of of us who stay within the space round Tyler Perry Studios … and the worth of the land is growing, and in flip, driving up property taxes. We’re instructed it is a main think about longtime residents residing on a hard and fast revenue being displaced and having their lives upended.
Our sources say Tyler, who got here in at No. 3 on the Forbes checklist of the Top 10 highest-paid entertainers of 2022 — raking in $175M final yr — lately reached out to Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens to assist maintain these residents of their houses.
We’re instructed Tyler’s $750k donation will do a variety of good issues in the neighborhood … together with paying off all again property taxes for each low-income senior in Atlanta, which covers practically 300 houses.
The cash will cowl taxes imposed by town, county and colleges.
Our sources say Tyler’s cash will even successfully freeze property taxes for 100 low-income seniors for 20 years … with the cash going to pay the distinction between present property taxes and property tax will increase over the following twenty years.
In addition to Tyler’s $750k earmarked for 2023, we’re instructed he will even donate about $500k yearly for the following 4 years … which works out to about $2.75 million complete. We’re instructed the funds might be dealt with by Invest Atlanta Partnership, the nonprofit wing of Atlanta’s financial growth authority.
Tyler’s the one Black man within the Forbes Top 10 highest-paid entertainers … and we’re instructed his precedence is to present again to the neighborhood that is meant a lot to him.