IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF MAILING YOUR TAX PAYMENT

The United States Post Office (USPS) changed when letters are stamped.  Your letter is no longer stamped at the local post office.  Instead, the USPS now stamps your letter when it arrives at a centralized processing hub (for us it is Milwaukee).  Letters are stamped when they reach Milwaukee, not at the local post office, which means the date that appears on your envelope now reflects when it was processed at this hub, not when you physically mailed it.  With the postmark now tied to a later processing step, a check dropped off on the due date at the local post office can easily end up with a next day postmark or later, which for legal purposes looks late even if you did everything right.

Be sure to build in extra mailing days, treat the due date as the day the payment must be postmarked at a processing center rather than the day you mail it, and consider other options such as dropping your payment in the drop box in front of the town hall or sending by certified mail (which will cost you more, but provide you with a receipt that shows when the USPS accepted your envelope).

Premier Community Bank has offered to be a drop off site for your tax payment.  They cannot offer a receipt as they do not have access to the tax system, but the Clerk/Treasurer will enter the date paid as the date that you dropped off your payment at the bank.  If you would like a receipt of your payment, please provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope along with your payment and a receipt will then be mailed to you.