Extended Payment Dates for Military Personnel

House Bill No. 390, effective March 4, 2002, allows an extension of time for payment of real estate and manufactured home taxes for members of the National Guard and reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States who have been called to active or other duty under Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Noble Eagle, or the Governor’s directive of September 28, 2001, or a successor to that directive.

Qualifying property includes property

Owned by a member of the National Guard or a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States who is called to active duty as a result of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Noble Eagle, or the directive issued by the Governor on September 28, 2001, or a successor to that directive. Owned by the spouse of such a member. Owned jointly by such member and that member’s spouse or dependent parent. Owned by a dependent parent of such a member who dies during such active duty.

Benefits for qualified property

Payment of taxes and assessments payable during the member’s period of active duty and the six months following termination of that duty are delayed until the seventh month after the member’s active duty ends. If the extended taxes are escrowed with a mortgage payment, the taxpayer may request that monthly mortgage payments be reduced by the amount of escrowed taxes fot the period of the military member’s active service.

Application Process

An application must be completed by the member, or by that member’s spouse or dependent parent. The application must be completed and an installment contract entered into no later than the last day of the sixth month following termination of active duty. Proof of eligibility must be provided with application (copy of military orders or other documentation). Qualified applicants will enter into a contract to pay the deferred taxes in installments beginning in the seventh month following the end of the member’s duty.

You can contact our office by

• Phone Number: 740-699-2145
• Fax Number: 740-699-2584
• Address:
  Katherine J. Kelich, Treasurer
  Belmont County Courthouse
  101 W. Main Street
  St. Clairsville, OH 43950-1260