All Property Taxes
Property Taxes: Delinquent Property Taxes
Taxes Due and Payable, by County, in Calendar Year
1999
The table shows total delinquent property taxes for calendar
year 1999 for all Ohio counties. The delinquent taxes listed
include taxes unpaid in the calendar year 1999 as well as in
proceeding years which were still unpaid in 1999. Three
categories of delinquent taxes are presented: tangible
personal property; all real property plus public utility
personal property (delinquencies for real and public utility
personal property taxes are not separated on the county
auditor abstracts); and special assessments. The actual
amounts of the delinquencies, and additional penalties and
interest imposed on the delinquent taxes are included in the
figures.
Total delinquencies were $888.0 million, a 1.5% decrease from
the 1998 total of $901.1 million. Of this amount, real and
public utility personal property delinquencies comprised
$550.5 million while tangible personal property delinquencies
amounted to $264.1 million. Special assessment delinquencies
totaled $73.4 million.
Among Ohio counties, Cuyahoga had the highest amount of total
delinquencies, with $176.1 million. Approximately $118.2
million of this amount was comprised of real property. Morgan
County had the lowest amount of delinquencies at $455,245
(real property accounted for $385,763 of this amount).
Data for this table were taken from abstracts filed by county
auditors with the Ohio Department of Taxation.