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Mayor Declares April Property Tax Amnesty Month

DETROIT-Property owners have the entire month to pay delinquent taxes without penalty. After that amnesty period, more stringent action will be taken starting in May, including turning accounts over to a collection agency.

By Robert Carr | Updated on March 15, 2002

DETROIT-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking the city council to declare a property tax amnesty period during the month of April, allowing property owners to pay delinquent property taxes without penalty between April 1 and April 30. At the end of April, the City would then step up its enforcement and collection of delinquent property taxes, he says, including instituting legal action and turning past due accounts over to a collection agency.

The mayor says the city currently is owed some $95 million in delinquent property taxes, with an additional $67 million owed to the Detroit public schools. The mayor submitted a resolution to council Monday to provide for the amnesty period.

“At this time when the city is facing financial problems, it is particularly important that all of our taxpayers pay their fair share of the cost of operating city government,” he says. “If all the property taxes that are currently delinquent had been paid, we would not be acing the deficit situation we are now forced to deal with.”

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