Moultrie County

Your PIN #/parcel # is a 12 digit number that identifies your particular piece of property. It appears on your tax bill near the center of the page, highlighted in yellow, and in a box labeled “Parcel #”.  If you need this number, contact the Chief County Assessment Official at (217)728-4951.

Tax bills were mailed on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.  If you have not received your bill by the end of the first week of June, please contact this office at (217)728-4032

If you do not receive a tax bill, it is your responsibility to contact this office to request a duplicate bill.  If you are a new homeowner and the bill was issued in the previous owner’s name, contact this office for a duplicate bill.  By law, failure to receive a tax bill, or receiving one late for any reason, will not relieve the taxpayer from paying taxes or late fees.

New homeowners should check their real estate closing documents or with their title company or attorney to see if they owe taxes due this year. Depending on the closing and document recording dates, the tax bill may have been sent to the previous owner.  If you find that you do owe taxes, please contact this office for a duplicate bill

The tax bills that are mailed out in 2023 are for the calendar year 2022. Illinois property taxes are based on the taxable value of your property on January 1 of the previous year.

If you no longer own the property, please forward the bill to the new owner.  If that is not possible, please contact this office so that a duplicate bill can be mailed to the new owner.

We always send the tax bill to the homeowner so they can check their assessment and exemptions and confirm that they are correct. If your mortgage company is to pay your taxes, it is your responsibility to forward the tax bill to them for immediate payment.

The first installment is due on Friday, July 7, 2023, and the second installment is due on Friday, September 8, 2023.

Yes, as long as it is done on or before the first installment due date or with late fees included for payments made after the due date.

Yes, we do. Be sure to mail your payments on or before the due date and be sure the Post Office marks your envelope with the date that you mail your payment.  It is strongly recommended that you take your payment envelope inside the Post Office and have them apply a postmark at the counter in your presence.  PLEASE NOTE bills paid by online bill pay companies are not always dated stamped for postage.  If there is not a postmark with date, you payment will be considered late.

There are several convenient ways to pay your tax bill. They are all listed on the back of your tax bill.

1. We encourage you to pay at your local participating bank on or before the due date.  You must have an original payment stub/coupon to pay at the bank. Banks do NOT accept payments after the second installment due date.
2. You can mail your payment to us at 10 S. Main St., Suite #10, Sullivan, IL 61951 (make checks payable to Moultrie County Collector).  Please include your payment stub/coupon with your check. See question 10 for postmark information.
3. You can pay online here, or using a toll-free number (1-844-793-2100) with a credit/debit card and e-check (see Moultrie County website for details).  All major credit/debit cards and e-checks can be used. All credit/debit/e-check payments require a fee which is neither charged nor collected by the Moultrie County Collector.  
4.  You can pay at the Moultrie County Treasurer’s office in the Courthouse, 10 S. Main St., Suite #10, Sullivan, Illinois.  Office hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.  Monday – Friday, except for holidays.  You can also use the drop box located at the Courthouse west entrance, attached to the building.  We accept cash, checks, credit/debit cards, money orders, and cashier’s checks.   Cut-off date for checks and e-checks is Monday, October 2, 2023. Cut-off date for credit/debit cards will be Monday, October 2, 2023.

Late payment schedules are printed on the payment stub/coupon. Follow these schedules only if paying late. If you follow the late payment schedule, you will still receive any legally required late notices. By law, late interest must be charged on payments received after the due date (unless postmarked on or before the due date) and is assessed at 1.5% per month or any part of a month. Late interest increases every 30 days.

Yes, we do.  We send a “friendly reminder” shortly after the second due date. We also send press releases to the local media regarding the bills being mailed.

Personal and business checks and e-checks will not be accepted within 30 days of the tax sale. Only cash, money orders, cashier’s checks and certified checks accepted. The cut-off will be Monday, October 22, 2023 at 4:30 PM in this office for personal or business checks. E-check cut-off is end on banking day Monday, October 2, 2023. Postmark no longer applies.

By law, we are required to notify you two ways if you are unable to pay within a few weeks of the second due date. A delinquent notice is sent to you by certified mail and your name and amount due are to be published in a newspaper near your property. If there are any unpaid taxes at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, we are required by law to hold a Tax Sale. It will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:00 AM. At that time, any unpaid taxes will be “sold” to a tax buyer who will pay them for the taxpayer. It is important to note, the property itself is not sold, just the taxes. After the tax sale, you will be liable for the tax amount sold at the tax sale as well as interest at a rate determined the day of the sale.  After the Tax Sale on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:00 AM, you must contact the County Clerk’s office for the redemption amount. If you do not redeem your taxes within 2 ½ years, the tax buyer has the legal right to petition the court for a deed to the property.  You can reach the County Clerk's office by calling (217)728-4389.

Listed on the back of each tax bill is the contact information for the offices of the Chief County Assessment Official, County Collector, and County Clerk. Also listed are the responsibilities each office has for the information on your tax bill. Please call the appropriate office with any questions.

The convenience fee is not charged by the County. The fees that are charged to the cardholder are given to the vendor that is processing the payment on behalf of the County. The fee goes towards the credit card processing fees and the costs of capturing the payment as well as providing a secure site for all of this to take place.

Unlike a retail store where the discount fee charged by the credit card company to the store is part of the price of all of the merchandise sold, taxes cannot be discounted, thus the fee is a separate item which the cardholder can see. When you purchase goods at a store with a credit card the fee charged to the store from the credit card company or bank is part of the price of the goods you are purchasing. You do not see the fee, but it is certainly included in the price of the items you are buying.

The County is not involved with setting the convenience fee rate. The convenience fee is negotiated between the County’s credit/debit card processor and the credit/debit card companies. By law, local governments can only accept credit/debit cards if specific issues of due diligence are followed.  If we did the bidding ourselves, we would have no leverage since our numbers would be so small. The rate that has been negotiated is not out of line with rates paid by retail outlets and in some cases is more favorable. If the County was required to absorb the credit card fee, we would not be able to offer credit/debit cards as a payment option.