Politics & Government
Here's What It Will Cost If You Missed the Sept. 1 Property Tax Bill
You can still drop off your tax bill in the drop box, but there will be a 1.5 percent penalty for lateness from Sept. 2 through Oct. 1, and it goes up from there.
If you're like me, and a whole lot of other folks, you tend to wait until the last minute to get things done. Nothing like a deadline, I always say.
The same is true for about 2,000 people who deposited their property tax payments Wednesday—the Sept. 1 due date for the second installment—in the drop box behind Building A at the Kane County Government Center.
The drop box is still open, but the deadline is passed. The penalty for late payment is 1.5 percent if you pay from Sept. 2 through Oct. 1. It's a 3 percent penalty if you pay from Oct. 2 though Oct. 22.
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Kane County Treasurer Dave Rickert said the number of last-day payments continues to go up.
"We had about a 20 percent increase, or spike, about two years ago, and it's been steady from there," he said. "So what that tells me is the economy, at least locally, still hasn't quite turned around yet."
