The Town website announcement about late tax bills (linked here) and the newspaper articles about it (here) mentioned that “paper bills” were going or went out late. I don’t think everyone knows what that means, so I called the Tax Collector’s office to find out. It’s good news for most of us.
I was very concerned about the tax bill because, while I’m sure I could get the check in the mail with only 1 day’s notice if I had to, my mortgage servicer probably could not. Would I be liable if they didn’t make the payment reasonably expeditiously? (That’s the regulatory term, pretty sure that doesn’t mean they have to do it in a few days.)
According to the person I spoke with at the Tax Collector’s office, the major mortgage servicers get the tax bills electronically, and those went to them on July 6th. The smaller, local banks that don’t get electronic bills got those mailed July 6th and 7th.
Sounds like most of us, who have mortgages and mortgage servicers paying our tax bills, have nothing to worry about.
It probably would have made sense for the notices to and press articles to mention this, since it basically says 90% of us have nothing to worry about.
Oh well, all five of my readers now know.
