A Fulton County judge has ruled that Clayton County must split the proceeds of alcohol sales at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with the city of College Park, overriding the county’s arguments that it should keep all of the taxes, even though large sections of the airport’s terminals and concourses are within College Park’s city limits.

Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk on Oct. 28 held that the county must also submit to an audit and hand over taxes it collected in years past, estimated at $2.5 million by College Park’s city attorney, Steven Fincher of Jonesboro’s Fincher Denmark Minnifield.

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