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Board accepts tax settlement showing 81% collection rates through Dec. 31, 2025
Summary
The Board accepted the Tax Collector's settlement for July 1–Dec. 31, 2025: Real estate billed $43,143,691.25 with 81.62% collected; personal property billed $4,390,622.29 with 81.37% collected. The settlement was accepted by unanimous vote.
County Tax Administrator Will Lankford presented the tax settlement covering the period through the end of the previous Tax Collector’s appointment (July 1–Dec. 31, 2025). The report showed a total billed real estate tax of $43,143,691.25 with $35,215,861.92 collected and an uncollected balance of $7,927,829.33 (collection rate 81.62%). For personal property, the report showed $4,390,622.29 billed with $3,572,449.27 collected and an uncollected balance of $818,173.02 (collection rate 81.37%).
Chairman Hardin C. Kennedy and commissioners thanked Lankford for the work; Lankford described an August discount and mortgage escrow practices that tend to produce an earlier collection rate. Vice Chairman Evan Handy moved to accept the tax settlement and the Board voted unanimously to do so.
