Deadline approaching to pay property taxes in Arkansas

HARRISON, Ark. (KY3) – The deadline to pay property taxes in Arkansas is October 15.

Since that falls on a Saturday, the general public will get an extra enterprise day, that means no late charges will likely be incurred by funds made by the top of the enterprise day on October 17.

Amy Jenkins serves because the Boone County Collector. She says that is the busiest week of the yr for her workplace.

“It has been fairly busy now we have our ups and our downs,” she mentioned. “We’re absolutely staffed, so we’re capable of get by folks fairly rapidly.”

Which Don Norman agreed. Norman was within the collector’s workplace Thursday, caring for enterprise.

“Yeah, we waited until the final minute to get‘em paid up,” he mentioned. “It’s a type of offers we’d preserve forgetting it and eventually we higher get in there.”

Norman suggests not ready until the final minute.

“Get it completed early as a result of I at all times wait till the final minute, and one thing at all times occurs.,” he mentioned.

In Arkansas, all late property tax funds result in a ten% price added to the quantity due.

“If folks will come to us earlier within the yr, now we have extra time, and it’s not as loopy,” mentioned Jenkins. “So sure, if they might pay earlier within the yr, that may be higher.”

Throughout most counties in Arkansas, you’ve gotten the choices to pay in individual, on-line, or by the mail.

“The mail must be postmarked by the put up workplace they’ll’t simply stick it within the mailbox on the seventeenth and count on that it will likely be postmarked,” mentioned Jenkins. “Lots of people will simply go put it of their mailbox, mail has already run and doesn’t get picked up the following day. It’s delinquent.”

Fee on-line provides an extra 2.89% to the processing price.

CLICK HERE for on-line cost in Boone County.

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