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Tax commissioner asks board to purge 2014–2018 uncollectible accounts, cites small aggregate amount
Summary
Newton County's tax commissioner asked the board to approve compiling and purging an insolvency list for tax years 2014–2018, saying the amounts are small (described as under about $280,000) while defending current high collection rates; commissioners pressed for details and legal options.
Newton County’s tax commissioner told the Board of Commissioners on March 3 that routine enforcement and ordinance provisions require compiling an insolvency list to remove long‑standing, uncollectible tax debts from the tax digest for tax years 2014–2018.
The commissioner described several reasons accounts become uncollectible: statute‑of‑limitations issues, parcels now owned by persons other than the named taxpayer, mobile homes or other property moved or gone, duplicate or erroneous bills, and businesses that closed without filing returns. He said many of the…
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