SB 285 passed the Senate 43 to 0. Essentially, it allows a county to adopt an ordinance that creates an e-mail option for property tax notice. Once that has been done, then taxpayers in the county can opt to receive notices via e-mail.
I am all for doing as much as possible online and limiting snail mail to the extent possible. But, I’ve also had enough e-mail disappear into the ether that I’d be a little concerned about doing property tax notices that way. On the other hand, every property owner knows they have to pay property taxes. If they don’t get their notices, it isn’t too difficult to get your tax liability information at some point before their property goes up for tax sale.
I’m al for this! My county just sent me out a statement that said “This is not a bill” to tell me what the first and second installment of 2007 payable (what a joke) in 2008 would be. Thing of it is-my bank already paid the first installment in October and the second installment on Christmas Eve.
BTW Lake County has yet to get back to the May/Oct. schedule since 2002.
Anyway it was a wasted stamp and a wasted piece of paper for me.
When I sent out wedding invites to around 200 people, I lost 1/3 of them. When I sent out a letter to 100 people about something for church, I lost 1/2 of them.
I have NEVER lost 1/3 of my emails. I’ll take that any day over snail mail.
Jason –
I think there are other hypotheses that could explain you high ‘loss’ levels, rather than poor performance by the post office.
Is anyone doing controlled experiments on postal delivery rates?
Our paper just told us that these letters were to tell us how much we saved with the circuit-breaker in 2008 vs. 2007. In my case it was around $1,000. Now I’m smart enough to look at my escrow account and figure this out without their mailing to me-and did that with my on-line banking.
Cost to do this…..$48,000.
Voting out these boneheads….priceless!