County Treasurer Robin Rother reports that 61.8 percent of the county’s 2019 ad valorem tax has been paid.

As of Thursday, Feb. 20, county property owners had paid $23,021,977.50 of the total tax certified for collection – $37,442,543, leaving a balance of $14,218,776.50 still to be collected after adjustments totaling $201,789.

Property owners who paid at least one-half of their total tax bill by Jan. 10 are allowed by law to delay paying the second half without penalty to March 31.

Interest – 1.5 percent per month on unpaid taxes – begins April 1.

A total of $14,006.50 was reported paid under protest.