Effective - 28 Aug 2001
139.053. Property taxes, how paid — estimates — interest — refunds — exemption for property taxes paid by financial institutions. — 1. The governing body of any county, excluding township counties, may by ordinance or order provide for the payment of all or any part of current real and personal property taxes which are owed, at the option of the taxpayer, on an annual, semiannual or quarterly basis at such times as determined by such governing body.
2. The ordinance shall provide the method by which the amount of property taxes owed for the current tax year in which the payments are to be made shall be estimated. The collector shall submit to the governing body the procedures by which taxes will be collected pursuant to the ordinance or order. The estimate shall be based on the previous tax year's liability. A taxpayer's payment schedule shall be based on the estimate divided by the number of pay periods in which payments are to be made. The taxpayer shall at the end of the tax year pay any amounts owed in excess of the estimate for such year. The county shall at the end of the tax year refund to the taxpayer any amounts paid in excess of the property tax owed for such year. No interest shall be paid by the county on excess amounts owed to the taxpayer. Any refund paid the taxpayer pursuant to this subsection shall be an amount paid by the county only once in a calendar year.
3. If a taxpayer fails to make an installment payment of a portion of the real or personal property taxes owed to the county, then such county may charge the taxpayer interest on the amount of property taxes still owed for that year.
4. Any governing body enacting the ordinance or order specified in this section shall first agree to provide the county collector with reasonable and necessary funds to implement the ordinance or order.
5. Subsection 1 of this section shall not apply to payment for real property taxes by financial institutions, as defined in section 381.410, who pay tax obligations which they service from escrow accounts, as defined in Title 24, Part 3500, Section 17, Code of Federal Regulation, as amended.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1734 § 50.1500, A.L. 2000 H.B. 1238 merged with S.B. 894, A.L. 2001 H.B. 738 merged with S.B. 186)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title X - Taxation and Revenue
Chapter 139 - Payment and Collection of Current Taxes
Section 139.040 - Acceptable medium of exchange in payment of taxes.
Section 139.055 - Tax paid by credit card or electronic transfer — fee.
Section 139.060 - Nonresidents to be furnished statement.
Section 139.070 - Mortgagee or other lienholders — payment of taxes.
Section 139.080 - Payment of taxes on part of land — duty of collector — notice and protest.
Section 139.110 - Attachment of tax lien to insurance — waive lien — claims.
Section 139.120 - Seizure and sale of personal property — duty of sheriff.
Section 139.130 - Cost of levy to be taxed — collector may levy, when — fees.
Section 139.140 - Delivery of personal delinquent list to successor.
Section 139.150 - Duplicate receipts — exceptions.
Section 139.160 - Return of delinquent lists — settlement — inspection of lists by commission.
Section 139.170 - Special term of commission for settlement, when.
Section 139.180 - No additional delinquent lists.
Section 139.190 - Examination by commission — settlement on record — report to director.
Section 139.200 - Collector may be attached, when.
Section 139.210 - Monthly statements and payments.
Section 139.220 - Payment into county treasury — duplicate receipts.
Section 139.230 - Remittance to director of revenue — receipt — penalty for failure.
Section 139.240 - Disposition of moneys — St. Louis.
Section 139.250 - Failure to make payment — forfeiture — proceedings against defaulting collector.
Section 139.270 - Refusal to pay — forfeiture — distress warrant.
Section 139.280 - Penalty for erroneously reporting lands delinquent.
Section 139.290 - Illegal levy — refund.
Section 139.300 - Individual liability of officers — failure to perform duty, penalty.
Section 139.330 - What authorization by warrant.
Section 139.340 - Notification by clerk to treasurer — completion of books.
Section 139.350 - Collection of taxes — procedure.
Section 139.360 - Levy and sale of goods under distraint.
Section 139.370 - Sale under distraint — procedure.
Section 139.380 - Sale under distraint — surplus.
Section 139.390 - Removal from township — levy and collection of taxes.
Section 139.400 - Abatement on tax list — procedure.
Section 139.410 - Surplus tax money, how held.
Section 139.420 - Collector-treasurer — final settlement of accounts.
Section 139.430 - Collector-treasurer — monthly statements — disposition of collected moneys.
Section 139.440 - Collector-treasurer — default, penalties — certified copy of statement.