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Essex Junction may put question to voters on whether to accept postmarked tax payments
Summary
City staff told residents the charter is silent on delivery method for tax payments and proposed a ballot question asking whether the city should stop accepting postmarks on property-tax payments, citing USPS operational changes.
Mahoney explained that the city charter does not specify methods for determining timely tax payments and that state statute currently requires acceptance of postmarks. She said changes in how the U.S. Postal Service operates—specifically inconsistent postmarking—prompted the question whether the city should stop accepting postmarks for tax payments.
"State statute says, that postmarks should be accepted as timely payments," Mahoney said, but she also noted the city has already moved away from accepting postmarks on utility payments and is asking voters whether the same approach should apply to property taxes. The proposed question would let voters decide whether to change the local practice.
