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In my jurisdiction I make my payments on the county's property tax website without any authentication at all. Put in the address / parcel number, enter my email
by eszed 3y ago
In my jurisdiction I make my payments on the county's property tax website without any authentication at all. Put in the address / parcel number, enter my email address and credit card number. They send me a receipt. Anyone could pay it!
I don't know what would happen if I owned a piece of property that I didn't live on, and both I and the adverse posessor tried to pay. Maybe they'd take both payments? Maybe it's a race condition? No idea.
- jmugan 3y agoOr what if you only want to pay taxes for the part you are squatting on? You could imagine thousands of acres of a ranch and you only want to pay taxes on the back corner.
- eszed 3y agoI went back to my county's site, and that definitely would not be possible. I doubt that that would be possible anywhere, because the owner would typically get a single tax bill for the entire parcel-of-record. Maybe there's a legal mechanism for carving off a piece of a larger property that you've been "openly and notoriously" squatting for the requisite amount of time. If so, you'd pay the tax bill post facto. But... I don't really know anything, let alone cross-jurisdictionally. Those are educated guesses.