How to Pay Your Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes in Phelps County

Generally, Phelps County's tax bills are mailed out sometime during the first week of November every year. The Collector's office starts printing, sorting, and stuffing the tax statements late in October after we have received the current year's tax books from the County Clerk's office. The assessment value and total tax amount in these tax books is verified by the Clerk's office and the Assessor's office.
 

The Phelps County Collector's office is open 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday, except we are closed on all state and federal holidays.
 

We mail out two different tax statements, Personal and Real Estate. These statements are two part, both parts must be mailed or brought into the office to insure prompt service. The information, such as the parcel number, owner name, assessment value, address, etc., on these statements is not generated and maintained by the Collector's office. We only collect the amount of taxes due plus any applicable penalties or costs as mandated by state law. If you are paying after the due date of December 31st, please refer to the delinquency schedule printed on your tax statement for correct payment due.
 

Tax payments are accepted by mail (do not send cash). Please use the return envelope included with your statement. Upon processing your payment we will mail a paid receipt back to you. For your convenience, there is a 24 hour drop box inside the Courthouse entry way by the front right hand door.
 

Checks may be made out for the total of personal and real estate taxes together.
 

Payments made in the office or mailed will be accepted in the following forms:

    Traditional Payment Methods
  • Cash
  • Personal Check
  • Money Orders
  • Cashiers Checks
  • All Credit Cards can be used if paying in the office. Varying convenience fees are assessed by each credit card company in addition to the tax amount due.

 

    Alternative Payment Methods
  • Pay Real Estate and Personal Property Tax Statements at the Missouri County Collectors Association web site. Once this page has loaded, please select or click on "Pay Your Real Estate Property Taxes" or "Pay Your Personal Property Taxes" in the Online Services section to continue. Cards accepted: American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover/Novus.
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  • Or Pay by Touch Tone Phone: 1-888-2PAY-TAX or 1-888-272-9829
    • Enter Jurisdiction Code 3503.
    • Press 1 to Pay Personal Property Tax, Press 2 to Pay Real Estate Tax.
    • Enter Tax Account Number.
    • Enter Payment Information.
    • Enter Credit Card Information.
    • Cards accepted: American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover/Novus.
    • The system will give you a verbal receipt number. There is a nominal fee for using this service.

 

If you have a vehicle that you license in January, please take your paid personal tax receipt with you to the license office. We will not update their files until late in January.

If you have purchased real estate prior to October, the tax statement could go to the previous owner. Please check with them prior to calling our office if you did not get the statement.

Tax levies are a tax rate that are applied to a number of units of assessment value. Phelps County's levies are so many dollars per hundred dollars of assessment value. Knowing this, then tax bills are calculated as follows: Divide your assessment value by 100. Multiply this answer by the appropriate school district tax levy for which you live in. The result is your tax bill. For example, if you live in the Rolla School District, outside the city limits of Rolla, the total 1999 tax levy that would apply would be $3.44 per hundred, and if your assessment value is 200, you would calculate your tax bill by first dividing 200 by 100 and then multiply this times $3.44: 200 / 100 = 2, 2 * $3.44 = a $6.88 tax bill.


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