In the spring, O'Neill will send out township and county tax bills. In addition, school tax bills also include the township's library tax.Īnd the problems aren't expected to stop with this billing cycle. PV superintendent Carole Geary and business manager Susan Famularo were not available Wednesday for comment. While the revenue will eventually be collected, it's unknown what immediate effect the lost revenue would have on the district. With school tax rates remaining the same, O'Neill estimates that the taxpayers who haven't received their bills account for about $4.5 million in revenue for the school district that may be held up.
In 2012, property taxes from Chestnuthill Township accounted for $22.7 million of the school district's budget. "I don't want to see them get a 10 percent penalty come November," O'Neill said.įor the school district, the effect could be much larger.
Taxpayers who don't receive their bills could face additional fees. The returned bills could end up causing problems for taxpayers who didn't change their address, and the school district's budget. This is the first time the post office isn't readdressing the mail," O'Neill said. Last year, the Postal Service forwarded those bills to residents' new 911 addresses. She estimated more than 2,000 bills, or about 25 percent of the total she sent out for this billing cycle, have been returned. In Chestnuthill Township, tax collector June O'Neill has bins full of unopened bills that were returned as undeliverable by the U.S.
With another cycle of tax bills in the mail, tax collectors are facing another round of returned envelopes from taxpayers who didn't update their addresses after the county's 911 readdressing project.
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