Property tax payments in Marion County are due Wednesday, September 1st. Treasurer Michaela Bigaouette tells KNIA/KRLS News the statements sent out are based on the property values as of January 1st, 2020, and recent changes are not reflected.

“It seems we’ve gotten a lot of questions on credits, whether that’s the homestead credit, military credit, the business property tax credit, a lot of people have signed up for those in the last year or two. I think what gets lost in translation is when you sign up for that, you don’t get that on the next tax statement. This tax statement is based on the value of your property as of January 1st, 2020. So if you hadn’t signed up for that credit at that time, it’s not going to be on this tax statement, it will be on next year’s statement. The same goes if you’ve made a change to your property, that change, if it wasn’t in effect as of January 1st, 2020, it won’t be reflected on this tax statement.”

While the official due date is September 1st, the payments become delinquent on October 1st. A 1.5 percent penalty will be assessed at that time. Bigaouette encourages anyone with questions to contact her office.