TIM PRATT
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors is considering whether or not to hire a collection agency to recover more than $1.1 million in unpaid taxes and fines from county residents.
As of September, the county was owed approximately $652,000 in unpaid mobile home property taxes and approximately $486,000 in Justice Court fines, County Administrator Don Posey said. The county has the authority to seize and resell a mobile home if taxes go unpaid, Posey said, but the county doesn’t typically take that route because it has nowhere to store the seized units and it would mean evicting residents.
“That’s why the county has never done it and that’s why (the amount of unpaid taxes) continues to get bigger,” Posey said.
Supervisors on Monday took under advisement a contract proposal from debt-collection agency Southern Financial Systems. Under the proposal, debtors would have to pay the amount owed to the county, plus an extra 25 percent, which would go to the collection agency.
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