Craighead County continues to collect delinquent taxes that are owed to the county. At one point, the county was owed millions of dollars in past due business and personal property taxes…over 611-thousand of those dollars were from delinquent business taxes that dated back to 2008.
Tax Collector Marsha Phillips told the Craighead County Quorum Court’s Finance and Administration Committee that delinquent business taxes are being paid at a rapid rate. She says the current amount that is due is between 100,000 and 200,000 dollars. The remaining money is slow to come in and she is not optimistic that all of the money will be paid back.
Phillips told the committee that they will not use a collection agency to get the rest of the money, as the office will continue to get what it can with current collection efforts. The possibility of placing liens on those pieces of property has been discussed in the past. She also says that delinquent personal property taxes are also being paid as most are using tax refunds to pay off what they owe.
