BILLS
& PAYMENTS INFORMATION
Office Hours: Monday 7:30 am - 6:30 pm &
Tuesday through Thursday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm.
There is a mail drop box available 24 hrs a day for your convenience.
It is located outside
the front doors of the Township Office.
PLEASE WRITE
SEPERATE CHECKS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF BILLS!
IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE DO
NOT STAPLE CHECKS.
Taxes:
Taxes
are divided
into 2 tax bills per year. They are mailed out for you to receive them by July 1st
and December 1st
of each year. If you do
not receive a tax bill by
the middle of July and/or
December, please call our office at (231) 223-4484 so that we can make sure you
get one.
Both
the Summer and Winter tax bills are for calendar year that they are billed
(i.e. Summer and Winter 2008 tax bills are for January December of 2008). The
taxes are figured from the taxable value for that calendar year.
Taxes
are payable to: Peninsula Township Treasurer (Peninsula Township is fine too). The
Summer Taxes are due from July 1st through September 14th each year, and the
Winter Taxes are due from December 1st through February 14th
of each year. If the 14th
falls on a non-business day, then the due date will be the first business day
after.
If you
have an escrow account paying your taxes, we will still send the original bill
to you. Please check your bill to make sure that there is a code following the
words Mortgage Code. If there is, then your
information was sent to a mortgage company. If there is not a code, but there
should be, please call us to verify that there is no code. You will need to
call your mortgage company to make sure that they have the information if we do
not show one for you. It is the mortgage company’s responsibility to contact us
for your tax amount.
We
take tax payments of any amount. If you have questions about making payments,
please call us. We can take payments on Summer Taxes starting in July & Winter Taxes starting in
December.
After
September 14th there
is 1% interest added to any
Summer Tax amount still due, with 1 % being added the first day of every month
thereafter (starting in October). Any amount (Summer or Winter) owing after
February 14th will have a 3% late fee added.
As of
March 1st
of each
year, all taxes owing for the previous year become delinquent, and they are
turned over to the Grand Traverse County Treasurer. Delinquent taxes are
payable to: Grand Traverse County Treasurer (GT Co Treasurer’ is fine
too) at 400 Boardman Ave., Traverse City, Ml 49684. Their phone number is (231) 922-4735.
Water
Special Assessments:
The Special
Assessment bills are sent out on July 1st
each year
to those people in the Special Assessment District. If you do not receive one
by the end of July, please call
us so that
we can get you one. They are always due by September 14th. After
September 14th, there is a 1% penalty applied each month to the
amount still owing for that year. If there is any amount owing for that year as
of November, that portion (including penalties) will be added on your winter
tax bill for that property.
Special
Assessments can be paid off at any time. For payoff information, please call
our office. The payoff amount will vary each month.
The
Township does not require Special Assessments to be paid off if a property is sold. New owners can assume the assessment.
Check with your title company or lending institution to see if they will
require you to pay it off at closing.
