On Tuesday, commissioners approved a charter resolution to change the way the treasurer’s department collects back property taxes. A 2019 charter resolution requires Harvey County Treasurer Amy Perkins and her department to apply payments to the most current delinquent property tax bill, which means that in order to pay off the most delinquent tax, owners must pay off all of their taxes. If they can’t pay the whole thing, they often decide there’s no benefit in paying any of it off. The new resolution, which will take effect 60 days from the time it is published two weeks in a row, requires taxpayers to pay the current property tax first and then the most delinquent. This means that if someone has four years of back taxes owed, the new resolution acts like a four-year payment plan. Commissioner Becky Reimer thanked Perkins for thinking creatively.
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