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Craighead County looking to agressively collect owed business taxes

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Craighead County Tax Collector Marsha Phillips is under fire from the Quorum Court over a lack of being able to collect over 300-thousand-dollars in delinquent business property taxes.  Several Justices of the Peace questioned what the next step would be in collecting those taxes. 

According to the Sun, Phillips told the court that 53 businesses have still not paid taxes, with some of the taxes not being paid for several years.  She says some of the businesses are no longer in operation, or owners have moved out of Jonesboro.  Several Justices say they want the county to retain a lawyer to assist the county in moving forward with the tax collections. 

The Justices will review a list of collectible delinquencies during the next meeting on September 12th.   After that review, a decision will be made about what to do next.      

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.