Mobile home tax due July 8
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The mobile home tax for Saline County residents is due July 8. Real estate taxes should be in the mail soon.
Payments made after July 8 on the mobile home tax will incur a $25 per-month, or part of a month, late fee, according to a news release from Treasurer Danny Ragan. Payment may be made in person, by mail or by depositing the payment in the Courthouse drop box. Banks cannot accept mobile home payments, nor can they be paid by credit card.
Real estate tax bills should go out in mid-July, about two weeks later than usual, Ragan said in the news release. The Board of Review was in session longer than normal. Processing tax bills cannot begin before the Board of Review adjourns and a multiplier is issued to the county by the state Department of Revenue. Once that is complete, tax files are shifted to the county clerk, who checks the levies of local taxing bodies for correctness and applies those levies to calculate the 22.000 county real estate tax bills.
The files are then shifted to the Treasurer's office, where they are checked again and printed.
Taxes may be paid in two installments.
"We try to make the due dates as far apart as possible, all the while keeping in mind that we need to end tax collection season before our fiscal year ends Nov. 30," Ragan said in the news release.
After the second due date, the Treasurer's office collects late payments by certified mailing and publishing a delinquent list. Delinquent taxes are eventually sold.
Once the delinquent tax sale is concluded, the office calculates how the $19 million collected is allocated among the 54 taxing districts in the county. Four or five distributions are made throughout the collection season to get the tax money to schools and towns as quickly as possible.