Jackson County Real Estate Tax Bills

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[ Jackson County Treasurer's Office has received many phone calls asking when tax bills will be mailed. This is the year for the four-year re-assessment and the taxes are always later that year. State law requires the re-assessment for all counties.

Jackson County is unique in that they have elected township assessors who do the four-year re-assessment and then go to the Jackson County Supervisor of Assessments. Most counties around us are the commission form of government, with no township assessors.

Once the tax rates and the assessments are both in the computer, everything is rolled over to the Treasurer's Office and we can start printing tax bills. At this time we do not have this information, but do expect to receive it shortly. Once it reaches the Treasurer's Office, we should have over 31,000 tax bills printed, prepared for mailing and in the mail in five business days. We hope to mail the tax bills before the end of August. In 2004 the tax bills were mailed October 8. All offices involved have worked hard to get them out earlier this year than in 2004.

The tentative due dates are: first installment due Oct. 7 and second installment due Nov. 17. We hope this will be of help to the taxpayers in planning ahead for the taxes. We are also trying to give more than the required 30 days before the first installment is due.

There are six offices that are involved in the real estate tax process. Order of the process is: Township Assessors, Jackson County Supervisor of Assessments, Jackson County Board of Review, Illinois Department of Revenue (multiplier), County Clerk and finally the County Treasurer. After the re-assessment year is over, all offices involved work to get the taxes back on a regular schedule.