Show r ceding reeding County offers Loiters By B. B M. M ANDERSON Courthouse Reporter Within the next few days tax notices will be received received received re re- re- re by Davis County property property property prop prop- erty owners AND HERE are a few please dos and please given by Emil Whitesides Whitesides Whitesides White- White sides Davis County Treasurer Treasur Treasur- er concerning the 1968 property property property prop prop- erty tax notices I Mr Whitesides urges tax notice recipients to open their tax notice immediately upon receipt Read it over and check with the m mill ll levy on the back of the notice to tomake tomake tomake make sure the amount of the tax is correct IF THERE IS any question regarding the notice call the Treasurers Treasurer's office in the County County County Coun Coun- ty courthouse at Farmington at once It will be much easier for the Treasurers Treasurer's office personnel to assist you I during the next two or three 1 weeks than it will be towards the end of November when I taxes become delinquent If you dont don't pay the tax immediately upon receipt of I the notice put the notice in ina ina ina a safe place-and place then remember remember remember ber what safe place you put it in so it can be easily lo located located located lo- lo when you want to pay it I MR WHITESIDES also suggests suggests suggests sug sug- that the earlier I s sare sare sare are paid the easier it is for everyone including concerned-including i ithe the taxpayer It will not only eliminate standing in the long I tax-paying tax lines which still seem to form during the last I few days davs prior to the dead- dead line-but line it will also mean that I your tax money will not have to be spent to employ quite so much temporary help in inthe inthe inthe the Treasurers Treasurer's office to handle the minute last-minute load of tax payments Another point to keep in mind is that the taxes may I be paid at any anyone one of the local banks throughout Davis I County They may also be paid in person at the Treasurers Treasurer's Treasurers Treasurer's Treasurers Treasurer's Treasur Treasur- ers er's office or mailed to the Treasurers Treasurer's office If the tax I payment is mailed in it must not be paid in cash but by bycheck bycheck bycheck check or money order and must be accompanied by the entire tax notice MR WHITESIDES further stated that any property owner owner owner own own- er who has not received his I tax notice by November 1st should contact his office immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately to get a duplicate copy Tax notices have been lost in the mails occasionally Mr Whitesides said Especially Especial ly if there has been a change I of address I II I And the loss of a tax notice either through carelessness of the taxpayers or loss through the mails does not relieve the taxpayer from paying his taxes prior to the delinquent tax date which is at noon noonon noonon noonon on November 30 he added THE ASSESSED valuation of Davis County for the 1968 year is approximately This is a huge amount of money to be trying to collect collect collect col col- col- col lect and process during the I space of approximately six weeks We also work on a I limited budget just as all the County departments do I Iso so we try to keep the thc amount of help we have to hire during during during dur dur- 1 ing the tax collection period as low as possible the County County Coun I ty Treasurer said He also said that as a whole Davis County tax payers are arc very good about taking care of oC the payment of their taxes on time and I do appreciate their efforts During last year as is usually the case before I we close our books 98 percent percent percent per per- cent of the taxes were paid j |