Woonsocket Will Tap Tax Debtors' State Refunds
State program allows city to dock tax debtors' reimbursement checks.
If you owe the city money when your taxes are filed, it's coming out of your state refund, according to a report from turnto10.com. The news site reports there's about $15 million in uncollected taxes for 2012. This years' tax bills were mailed on July 6. City taxes are due in quarterly payments: July 27, 2012, Oct. 15, 2012, Jan. 15, 2013 and April 15, 2013, the last coinciding with the deadline to file taxes this year. WPRO.com reports the state program, called "refund offset" is available to any municipality in the state. Residents can check out how much they owe the city online, but letters have also been sent out notifying delinquent taxpayers that their refunds will be docked. The process is governed by RI General Law 42-142-7…
Steve
6:49 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Understood, One thing I'm thinking is that these can't be unpaid car taxes that are due, because if you don't pay your car taxes, you can't register you car. But then again, in Woonsocket, I wonder how many unregistered cars we have on the road... This is most likely unpaid property taxes, which I believe is the brunt of the tax base collected in Woonsocket. Which makes me wonder, why no more tax… more ›