New portal makes it easier to pay Cuyahoga County tax bills online

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County property taxes are coming due in two weeks, and the treasury’s new web site makes them simpler than ever to pay.

Tax payments for the second half of 2021 have been mailed out final week, and the deadline to pay is July 14. In any other case, a 5% penalty shall be assessed on any complete late from July 15-24.

A brand new cost portal goals to make it simpler for residents to pay their invoice on-line, offering income for native faculties, cities, villages, townships, libraries, and numerous county-level providers.

“Now we have labored to make it accessible and handy,” County Spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan mentioned.

The portal walks residents via 4 steps:

1. Search your payments

Within the Choose Cost Kind drop down menu, make certain “property tax” is chosen. It needs to be the one choice however is required so as to populate the sphere the place you sort in your parcel quantity.

Don’t know your parcel quantity? There’s a hyperlinked instrument that may take you to the county’s “MyPlace” web site the place you possibly can seek for the 8-digit quantity by the property proprietor’s title or deal with. Discover it subsequent to your title within the search bar or above your title within the “Basic Data” tab.

In case you copy and paste the quantity into the portal search bar, you’ll want to embrace the dashes after the third and fifth digits. Click on search.

2. Choose cost

The following display can have a abstract of your property and the taxes owed, together with any unpaid quantity from the primary half of the 12 months. You should click on “add to cart” to advance.

Click on “proceed,” you may be directed to a display the place you possibly can put in your cost info. Then click on proceed.

In case you personal a number of properties, you’ll have to full this course of for every one. Those that want to pay the payments due on all their properties in a single transaction, should both pay in particular person on the Cuyahoga County Administrative constructing, 2079 E. ninth St, or mail in a test with every invoice’s remittance stub.

3. Evaluate and submit

Residents will then have a chance to evaluation all their info to verify they’ve chosen the precise property and are utilizing the right cost info. Use the “again” button to make edits or click on “proceed” to advance.

At this level, residents shall be requested to pick which quantity they intend to pay: the complete quantity owed, which may embrace any delinquent taxes from the primary half of the 12 months’s invoice; the present quantity, which might solely embrace the quantity due for the second half of the 12 months; or they will enter no matter quantity they plan to pay at the moment.

4. Affirmation and receipt

As soon as all the knowledge has been confirmed, residents will obtain a receipt that they will print for his or her data.

On-line isn’t the one method residents will pay their tax payments, nevertheless. Different choices embrace:

• In particular person utilizing the cashier station or self-pay kiosk on the Cuyahoga County Administrative constructing, 2079 E. ninth St. It’s open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays with prolonged hours from 8 a.m. to six p.m. on July 14.
• By mail, with parcel quantity written on the test, to: Cuyahoga County Treasurer, P.O. Field 94547, Cleveland, OH 44101-4547
• By telephone at 1-877-738-1212
• By drop field positioned on the aspect of the Cuyahoga County Administrative constructing at 2079 E. ninth St.
• At any Key Financial institution department within the county, although the final day for this service shall be July 7
• At certainly one of 4 Auto Title branches, together with at 1585 Golden Gate Plaza in Mayfield Heights, 22121 Rockside Street in Bedford, 12100 Snow Street in Parma, and 27029 Brookpark Street Extension in North Olmsted. Examine every location for his or her hours of operation.

Taxpayers unable to make full cost of their property taxes can name 216-443-7420 to make an appointment with the Treasury Division to debate cost preparations.