Software issue delays real estate tax bills – Southwest Virginia Today

Wythe County Treasurer Lori Guynn hopes real estate tax bills will be mailed out this month, but cannot be certain until issues with a new software system are worked out.

“The real estate bills have not mailed out yet,” she said in an email. “Currently, we haven’t received the data in this office to bill them out. There are ongoing software issues that the Commissioner of Revenue’s office and the IT Department are trying to get worked out with the software companies.”

The issue has delayed the towns of Wytheville and Rural Retreat from mailing out their real estate taxes, too. Officials from both towns said they are waiting on information from the county before mailing out the bills.

Normally, real estate and personal property tax bills are mailed in early October with an early December due date, but officials voted for a later due date this year for personal property taxes.

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Wythe County, Wytheville and Rural Retreat have mailed out personal property tax bills. In Wythe County and Wytheville, they are due Dec. 30 to avoid penalty and interest charges.

Rural Retreat mailed out personal property tax bills in October; they are due Feb. 6. Rural Retreat Treasurer Monica Patton said she plans to discuss extending the deadline during next week’s Town Council meeting.

Personal property taxes are for vehicles, motorcycles, campers, boat, trailers, mobile homes and business related taxes like furniture and fixtures, merchants’ capital, signs, etc. Real estate taxes are for land and/or house and buildings.

Although Wythe County supervisors do not have a mailing date for real estate taxes, the board set March 30, 2023 as the extended due date for those taxes.

“I hope we can mail the bills out this month but it will be dependent upon how

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