April 26, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
If you didn’t beat the February 29 deadline in paying your 2023 DeKalb County property taxes you need to settle up. But now you have to add interest accruing at 3% or 4.5% as of May 1.
During Monday night’s regular monthly meeting, Trustee Sean Driver informed the county commission that as of Monday (April 22) collections were at 94.75% of almost $12.8 million in DeKalb County property taxes to be collected for the 2023 year which includes property, residential, commercial, personal, and public utility taxes. Collections as of that date (April 22) a year ago were 95.27%. For budgeting purposes, the county expects tax collections each year to be at least 95.5% with a 4.5% delinquency.
As a further reminder to delinquent 2023 property taxpayers, Trustee Driver said 1,700 notices will be mailed from his office on May 1 in an effort to collect the $666,326 still owed for the 2023 tax year.
Meanwhile, Trustee Driver said that on April 5th he turned over to the Clerk and Master in the Chancery Court a total of $81,127 in 2022 delinquent property taxes still owed. The collection rate for 2022 stands at 99.28% of the $11.2 million to have been collected for the 2022 tax year.