Sangamon County’s Citizens Efficiency Commission is recommending that the office of township tax collector be eliminated… and that its primary function of collecting property tax payments be turned over to the County Treasurer’s office.
Sangamon is one of only two Illinois counties that use township tax collectors to accept a portion of residents’ annual property tax payments. But the commission finds township collections cost substantially more than simply sending the money to the Treasurer’s office.
The commission says if its recommendation is implemented and the office of township tax collector is eliminated, tax collection costs could drop by $150,000 a year.
