Has anyone posted his address yet? *nevermind lmao
might want to help your parents pay their taxes then...
https://itax.tylertech.com/LewisAndClarkMT/detail.aspx?taxid=36581
I inquired for you, and I was told that the county hasn't sent the bill yet so the exact amount was not known. Thanks to your helpful link, a check will be written and dropped off at the county office in a couple days.
Oh, LOL. Skylar, the exact amount
was known--it's right there on the county assessor's website. If we can look up how much your parents owe in (now-delinquent) property taxes, then guess what?
So can they!
You're all being stupid. I texted my mother with a screenshot, and she told me why she hadn't paid yet.
You're mother's the stupid one if she thinks that she doesn't have to pay property taxes just because she hasn't received a postcard in the mail, or that anybody else but you would accept that as an excuse.
Maybe that website isn't totally accurate about what constitutes delinquency, seeing as the county hasn't yet sent out the standard postcards telling people what they owe for 2017.
See where it says "delinquent" there, in red letters?
That means it's delinquent, because payment was not made by the due date. Your parents were supposed to pay Lewis and Clark County $1274.41 by December 5, 2017, and over a month later they still haven't paid it. That's what constitutes delinquency.
And no, I don't for an instant believe that Lewis and Clark County's Assessor's office is so incompetent that they never sent out 2017 property tax bills in the first place. It's an automated process, and it's perhaps the single biggest source of revenue the county has to meet its operating expenses. They're not going to fuck it up on that scale. Seriously, they're just not.
That said, if your parents didn't get a paper copy of any other bill, would they refuse to pay it until they got one? Would they let the lights get shut off? Or pay an extra month's interest on a credit card debt, just because the bill didn't show up in the mail? Would they skip a mortgage or car payment? And do they really think "I didn't get the bill in the mail!" would fly, and not make them look absent-minded at best?
Powerlevel: I own property in three different counties, of widely varying sizes and population densities and levels of affluence. Thus, I pay property taxes, and I know how this shit works in different places, and that your parents really are fucking idiots if they allowed them go into delinquency over not getting a postcard in the mail.
Sometimes, I simply don't get the tax bill for one of my properties. For whatever reason, it just doesn't show up. But the reason why it hasn't shown up, or who fucked up so it didn't, doesn't fucking matter;
I still owe my property taxes.
Every year, each installment is due by a certain date. Every year, it's exactly the same. And anyone who owns real property here in the US knows this; there's no wondering, "Gee--when are property taxes due again?"
So when April rolls around and I'm missing a property tax bill, I go online, look up how much I owe--and pay it. Even the poorest, most technologically backward of the three counties allows me to do that.
In an alternate universe where I had no internet, or was too exceptional to use it, I could show up in person at the county Assessor's office to inquire and pay the bill. So let's pretend your parents are such rare and extraordinary exceptionals that, unlike any asshole on the internet with nothing else to do on a Friday night, they are
totally incapable of looking up their own property taxes online. Well, they're in luck! Helena is the county seat of Lewis and Clark County, and the Assessor's office is right downtown. Between the two of them, I'm sure one of them could make the time to stop by during business hours.
Evidently, one of them will have time in the next few days to go there and drop a check off, now that your childish behavior online has prompted some rando from the internet to point out that embarrassing delinquency; why they couldn't have bothered to do it when their taxes were actually due is beyond me. But whatevs.
I dunno you guys, do we really want to continue to instigate a situation where Skylar's mom has been invoked? I mean we're going to have to call campus police, write up tons of paperwork, and then just eventually refund his godamn tuition anyway when we grow weary of all the screeching.
Victoria Ittner's not going to show up here to screech (sry2say). After all, she's too fucking exceptional to look up her own property tax bill online; apparently, this new-fangled internet thing is too complicated for her to manage, and she leaves that to her precious genius baby boy Skylar, who is so much smarter than the other kids. I'm pretty sure she saves all her screeching for face-to-face encounters.
