Title 12, Taxation

(A) The sponsor shall file returns, contracts, and other information which may be required by the department. (B) Fee payments, and returns showing investments and calculating fee payments, are due at the same time as property tax payments and property tax returns are due. (C) Fa…

If an uncertified check is accepted by a county treasurer as payment for taxes or fees and the check is returned to the county treasurer unpaid for any cause, the county treasurer may institute proceedings pursuant to Section 34-11-70 to collect on the check, including all applic…

If, after the return of any personal tax by any county treasurer as delinquent, the county treasurer shall know or be informed that the person against whom it is charged resides in some other county in this State or has property or debts due him therein, he shall make out and for…

When the title or an interest in real or personal property, or any part thereof, shall have become transferred to or vested in any person not the owner at the time such property was assessed for taxation, the county auditor, upon the application at any time prior to sale under ta…

(A) A county treasurer annually shall complete satisfactorily a minimum of eighteen hours of continuing education courses that the department establishes or causes to be established. Failure to complete satisfactorily these courses in any year results in the treasurer forfeiting …

Upon application at any time prior to sale under tax execution of any person holding a mortgage upon any real or personal property which is assessed for taxation the county auditor shall apportion the share of taxes and costs due by the owner thereof upon that portion of or inter…

The rights granted by Sections 12-45-140 and 12-45-150 shall exist after property has been advertised for sale under tax execution if the applicant shall also pay the prorata cost of the advertisement and in any such case the sale shall continue as to the remaining property. When…

(A) A person serving as the county tax collector shall complete satisfactorily a minimum of six hours of annual continuing education courses that the department establishes or causes to be established. The content, cost, and dates of the courses must be determined by the departme…

Whenever any property shall be discharged in the manner provided in Sections 12-45-140 or 12-45-150 from taxes assessed against it, it shall likewise, upon payment of a like proportionate share of any taxes assessed by any city or town, be discharged from all municipal taxes asse…

(A) When the taxes and assessments or any portion of the taxes and assessments charged against any property or person on the duplicate for the current fiscal year are not paid before the sixteenth day of January or thirty days after the mailing of tax notices, whichever occurs la…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 12-45-180, the county treasurer may waive the penalties imposed pursuant to that section and notify the county auditor if necessary if the taxpayer provides clear and convincing evidence to the county treasurer that the taxpayer delivered…

The county treasurer shall hold office for four years and until his successor is appointed or elected and qualified. His term of office shall commence on the first day of July following his appointment or election. When any treasurer for any reason fails to complete his term of o…

(A) A county treasurer may invest or reinvest any sum of money not necessary for current expenses in: (1) obligations of the United States and its agencies; (2) general obligations of this State or any of its political subdivisions; (3) savings and loan associations if their depo…

The county treasurer may monthly report to the chief administrative officer of the county the amount of funds received for and on account of the county and the character of the funds.

The county treasurer shall on the fifteenth day of each month report to the chief executive officer of each school district an itemized statement of the amount of receipts and disbursements, by school districts, made by him for the previous calendar month and the balance remainin…

A county treasurer shall be subject to suspension and removal from office by the Governor upon the same grounds and in the same manner as prescribed in Section 12-39-30 in relation to county auditors, and all the provisions of said section are made applicable in cases of suspensi…

The auditor shall take from the duplicate previously provided to the treasurer for collection a list of all taxes, assessments, and penalties the treasurer has been unable to collect, describing the property as described on the duplicate. In making this list, the delinquencies in…

(A) A county treasurer may appoint an employee in his office to be his deputy. The appointment must be filed with the State Treasurer and the governing body of that county. When the appointment is filed, the deputy may act for and on behalf of the county treasurer when the treasu…

When an area of a county is annexed to another county, property taxes shall be levied based upon the last assessment of property values and levied according to the millage of the annexing county and shall be prorated between the two counties for the taxable year. Any delinquent t…

Immediately upon the receipt of the tax duplicate for the year from the county auditor, the county treasurer shall cause a notice to be inserted in one newspaper in his county stating the rate per cent of the levy for State purposes and the rate per cent for all other purposes on…

When a county treasurer or tax collector is charged by law with the collection of delinquent taxes, the county treasurer or tax collector may delegate in writing to the deputy county treasurer, to the deputy tax collector, or to the county sheriff the duty and responsibility to s…

Any taxes paid by a delinquent taxpayer to a county treasurer or tax collector must be applied to the oldest chronological delinquency on the property for which payment was intended. Personal property taxes tendered must be applied to personal property tax delinquencies and real …

Notwithstanding another provision of law a committee composed of the county auditor, county treasurer, and county assessor may, by a majority vote, waive, dismiss, or reduce a penalty levied against real or personal property in the case of an error by the county.

A county treasurer may not issue a tax receipt to a taxpayer unless the taxes, any applicable penalties and costs, and all other charges included on the tax bill have been paid in full. However, a county treasurer may accept a lesser amount than the original tax bill together wit…

County treasurers are prohibited from collecting any tax except such as has been first entered upon the tax duplicates of their respective counties or upon the order of the auditors of such counties.

(A) All taxes are due and payable between the thirtieth day of September and the fifteenth day of January after their assessment in each year. The county treasurer, acting under the direction and supervision of the department, shall collect the taxes in the manner prescribed by l…

(A)(1) The governing body of a county may by ordinance allow each taxpayer owning a parcel of taxable real property within the county the option to pay property taxes in installments as provided in this section. An installment election is not allowed for taxes paid through an esc…

If a homestead exemption is granted pursuant to Section 12-37-250 or a residential classification is made pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c) after payment of the property tax for that year, a resulting overpayment must be refunded to the owner of record at the time the exemption is…

The county treasurers of the respective counties may attend at certain safe and convenient places for the purpose of collecting taxes. They shall give twenty days' public notice of the days when they will be at the places designated.

Taxes are payable in the following kinds of funds and no other: silver coin, United States currency, United States postal money orders, and checks subject to collection. A third-party administrator may be used for the collection of taxes through electronic media if there is no co…

All taxes, assessments and penalties legally assessed shall be considered and held as a debt payable to the county by the person against whom they shall be charged and such taxes, assessments and penalties shall be a first lien in all cases whatsoever upon the property taxed, the…

For purposes of this article: (1) "Auditor" means the officer charged by law with the assessment of ad valorem taxes and assessments and with the mailing of tax notices. (2) "Collateral" means the mobile or manufactured home in which a lienholder holds a security interest. (3) "C…

When real property is levied upon for taxes by the tax collector, the tax collector shall give at least forty-five days' written notice prior to the sale of the real property to a mortgagee contained on the mortgagee list filed with the tax collector as provided in Section 12-49-…

The form of notice required pursuant to Section 12-49-1120 must be substantially as follows: DELINQUENT TAXES Notice to Holder of Mortgage Notice is given to ____________________ as the holder of a certain mortgage recorded in the office of the__________ in Book _______ at Page _…

The tax collector shall keep a record of each notice given under Section 12-49-1120 that contains the date the notice was delivered, the method of delivery, the address where the notice was delivered, and the name of the addressee of the notice.

To entitle a mortgagee to the notice required by Section 12-49-1120, a list of each mortgage located in the county as to which the notice is desired must be filed by the mortgagee with the tax collector of the county in which the real property covered by a mortgage lies on or bef…

The form of the mortgagee list for real property must be substantially as follows: Mortgagee List For County Mortgagee/Holder: Address for Notice: Date: Name of Owner(s) Tax Map Book Page or Mortgagor(s) Number of Record Number

The mortgagee list may be provided to the tax collector through any medium acceptable to the sender and the receiver. This medium may include, but not be limited to: United States mail, hand delivery, express delivery, or e-mail. The sender shall maintain sufficient proof that th…

(A) The rights, interest, and security of a mortgagee complying with the provisions of Section 12-49-1150 are not affected by a tax sale and a deed of conveyance, unless the provisions of Section 12-49-1120 are complied with. (B) Except as specifically provided in this article, t…

When a mobile or manufactured home is levied upon for taxes by the tax collector, the tax collector shall give at least forty-five days' written notice before the date of the tax sale to lienholders by following the procedures provided in Section 12-49-1220, except as otherwise p…

(A) Except as provided in subsection (B), the form of the notice required by Section 12-49-1190 must be substantially as follows: "DELINQUENT TAXES NOTICE TO LIENHOLDER Notice is given to ________________ as the holder of a certain lien on the mobile or manufactured home below de…

The tax collector shall keep a record of each notice given pursuant to Section 12-49-1190 which must contain the date the notice was delivered, the method of delivery, the address to which the notice was delivered, and the name of the addressee of the notice.

(A) In providing the notice of levy and sale required in Section 12-49-1190 relating to mobile or manufactured homes, the tax collector shall comply with the procedures provided for in subsections (B) or (C) and (D). This section does not require the tax collector to send more th…

(A) By July first of each year, each lienholder may provide a written collateral list to the tax collector of each county in which the lienholder's collateral is located. The collateral list sent to a particular county must be derived by a lienholder sorting its accounts by Unite…

The form of the collateral list and a supplement for mobile or manufactured homes must be substantially as follows: Collateral List For __________________________ County Lienholder: ______________________________________ Address for Notice: _______________________________ Date: _…

The collateral list and a supplement may be provided to the tax collector through a medium acceptable to the sender and the receiver. The medium may include United States mail, hand delivery, express delivery, or e-mail, but the sender shall maintain sufficient proof that the col…