January
Apply for Real Property tax exemptions in the Property Appraiser’s Office. Call 386-329-0286 for more information. Exemptions include: homestead, widow, disability etc. Also file agriculture classification.
Tangible Personal Property tax returns should be filed in the Property Appraiser’s Office.
Receive 2% discount on payment of Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Taxes. 25% penalty levied on Delinquent Business Tax.
Renew window stickers for mobile homes that are not assessed as Real Property. Late fee applies after February 10.
February
Receive 1% discount on payment of Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Taxes.
March
Gross amount of Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Taxes. Due by March 31st.
Fourth (4th) payment due for Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Installment plan. Due by March 31st.
April
ALL TAXES BECOME DELINQUENT.
Second mailing of notices on unpaid Real Property Taxes.
3% delinquent penalty added to Real Property taxes.
1 ½% delinquent penalty per month added to Tangible Personal Property taxes.
Within 45 days delinquent Tangible Personal Property taxpayers will be advertised and cost of advertising added to delinquent penalty. ADVERTISING COST ADDED AFTER APRIL 15.
Half-year rate in effect on all new Business Tax.
May
Advertise the issuance of Tax Warrants on Delinquent Tangible Personal Property. Advertise list of Delinquent Real Estate Taxpayers for three consecutive weeks.
Cost of advertising added to delinquent penalty.
Tax Certificate Sale for delinquent Real Property Taxes is held online at Putnam Tax Sale.
Deadline for applying for payment of Real and Tangible Personal Property Taxes by installment. If you are already enrolled in the installment plan you need not re-apply.
June
First Payment due for Real and Tangible Property installment plan.
Issue tax warrants on delinquent Tangible Personal Property, directing levy and seizure of property.
On or before June 1, a Tax Certificate Sale of delinquent Real Property Taxes is held online at Putnam Tax Sale.
July
August
Business Tax renewal notices mailed first of the month.
Business Tax renewal period begins. Licenses go on sale for the new year. Licenses expire September 30.
September
Second payment due for Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Installment plan by September 30th.
Business Tax becomes delinquent September 30th.
October
Current year’s Business Tax become delinquent and are accessed a 10%
penalty. Late fees applied.
November
First mailing of current year’s tax bills. Tax roll is open for collection of Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Taxes. Receive a 4% discount on payment if made by November 30th.
Business Tax has 15% penalty.
December
Receive a 3% discount on payment of Real Property and Tangible Personal Property Taxes if paid by December 30th.
Business Tax has a 20% penalty.
Third (3rd) payment due for Real and Tangible Personal Property Installment plan. Due by December 31st.
In Florida, Tax Collectors are independent constitutional officers duly elected from their counties of residence by their fellow citizens and taxpayers. The elected county office of Tax Collector in Florida was established in the 1885 state constitution based on the ideas that local taxes could best be collected at the local level, and they are elected for 4-year terms in the presidential election year. The independence of the Tax Collector's Office is necessary for it to serve both local and state agencies. It is this independence coupled with the fact that Tax Collectors deal with a variety of duties and responsibilities and provide a myriad of important public services, that allows them to exercise valuable leadership roles in Florida's government.
They direct, plan, organize, budget, set and implement policies which affect not only their governments, but reach the state level as well, such as The Department of Community Affairs, the Department of Professional Regulation, and the Secretary of State.
Along with their own local involvement in personnel and financial management matters, Tax Collectors participate in the management of the executive branches of state government which include the Florida Wildlife Commission, Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and Department of Revenue.
It is the Tax Collector who sees all of these departments as a whole and, consequently, is able to coordinate and analyze the impact they have collectively. Staff members from various departments of state along with state legislatures should and do draw heavily on the broad base of knowledge accumulated by the Tax Collectors in drafting tax legislation and establishing rules and regulations for carrying out laws regarding the collection of taxes.
With the Tax Collector operating on the local level and, by being an elected office, the Tax Collector would be more responsible to the needs of the community from which he was elected. Although the revenues collected are mostly taxes, the Tax Collector's Office is not funded from tax dollars. It is a fee office. The fees collected for the services provided are used to fund the operating budget, which is approved by the Florida Department of Revenue.
In most counties the Tax Collector is responsible for not only the collection of advalorem and non-advalorem taxes, which is the single largest tax collected in Florida, but also for the collection of other taxes at the local level such as Business Tax Receipts, Tourist Development tax, taxes imposed by special levying districts and also taxes imposed by state agencies.
The Tax Collector is a vital link between the citizens and the diverse programs that affect them, who insures that both government agencies and individual citizens are treated equitably.
The mission of the Tax Collector's Office is to provide accurate and courteous service to the citizens and government agencies of Putnam County.
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