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Trustee proposes dropping personal-property tax notices under $20 to save collection costs
Summary
Hamilton County trustee Bill Highlander asked the state to allow the county to stop sending personal-property tax bills of $20 or less, citing high collection costs and administrative burden; commissioners asked for fiscal detail before final approval.
Hamilton County Trustee Bill Highlander told commissioners he plans to ask the Tennessee legislature to permit Hamilton County to stop mailing personal-property tax bills that are $20 or less.
Highlander said the county currently issues roughly 18,000 personal-property tax bills annually; "4,400 of those bills are less than $20, and 1,200 of those bills that we send out, if they pay it, are less than…
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