Most mortgage companies and lenders access and/or retrieve tax bills directly online or through electronic files, which eliminates the need to mail them a paper copy of the bill. Property owners, however, remain responsible for ensuring the timely payment of the bill, therefore they will be mailed a tax bill every year.
Most mortgage companies contract with a tax service to handle the processing and payment of tax bills. Although your mortgage company may forward your escrow funds to the tax service as early as September, the tax service does not normally remit payment to the County until the latter part of November. Mortgage companies not using a tax service also generally wait until December before remitting payment. The County applies payments as soon as they are received.
If you would like to verify that your taxes have been paid, you can find your bill online using our Citizen Self Service site. Simply click on “Real Estate” and enter your “Parcel ID” from you tax notice. (Note: Other search options are available, however the best way is searching by ONLY entering the Parcel ID and leaving the other fields blank). NO login or registration is required.
