Property Tax Payment Policy

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Town of Durham, Maine Property Tax Payment Policy 2019

It shall be the policy of the Town of Durham to require that any property tax payment received be applied to the oldest unpaid tax obligation. This would apply to all property tax accounts including real estate and personal property.

The objective of this policy is to avoid a foreclosure on a tax lien that may be near the date of maturity thereby protecting the payer’s title to the property.

Judgment and care shall be given when receiving payment via United States Postal Service acknowledging that postmarked date constitutes date of payment.

Staff shall supply a return receipt when requested.

Partial Payments shall be applied first against all Lien fees and accumulated interest due for that tax year. There shall be no interest charged on interest.

Adopted pursuant to 36 MRSA section 906.

Given under our hand this I a day of / dawn , 2019

FE g _ QRS \ edt Poo, ios Durham Board of Selectmen | Attest, A True Copy, Durham Town Clerk

Source: property_tax_payment_policy.pdf on durhammaine.gov. Text extracted with pdftotext, then OCR; no wording has been corrected.