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Welcome to the Woodbury County Treasurer’s office,
home of the best treasurer’s teams in the state. I am fortunate to have
the finest deputies and members of my teams as I could ever hope for.
They all are very knowledgeable, and all are very conscious of
performing good customer service, as good as or better than you would
get at a retail establishment. When you stop in, or contact us by phone
or email, you will be treated as the good customer that you are.
My Property Tax Team collects taxes for real
property, mobile homes, utilities, buildings on leased land, drainage
ditch districts and city and county special assessments. We collect the
assessed funds for 53 taxing bodies in Woodbury County, and do the
billing, collection and apportionment for each at no cost to them. This
enables each taxing body to complete their budget on the revenue side,
for each fiscal year. As part of this collection process the Tax Team is
also responsible for tax sale duties such as, processing tax sale
redemptions, issuing tax sale deeds, processing tax suspension and
processing plats and mobile home tax clearances.
The treasurer is also charged with investing the
county’s funds, to obtain the highest possible return on our investments
while maintaining 100% safety of the funds. Although the treasurer is
allowed a wide range of investment options, it is the Woodbury County
Treasurer’s policy to invest only in Woodbury County banks. “If they
pay property taxes in Woodbury County, they are entitled to bid on
county funds”
The Motor Vehicle Team issues vehicle titles and
licenses, registers and collects all vehicle fees for the vehicle owners
in Woodbury County. Within the Motor Vehicle Division is the Department
of Natural Resources (DNR) which issues hunting and fishing licenses and
processes titles and registrations for boats, ATVs, and snowmobiles.
A constant and on-going goal of my departments is
to make our customer’s payments as convenient as possible. We have
several innovations to do just that: There are four Tax Department
locations in Woodbury County. The Tax Team is located in the mail
courthouse. The Motor Vehicle/DNR Teams are in the Trosper Hoyt
building, and a full service Tax/Motor Vehicle/DNR office is in downtown
Anthon. We also maintain a Motor Vehicle desk at the state’s Drivers
License station.
For customer convenience tax payments and motor
vehicle license renewals are available on-line by visiting our website:
www.treasurer.woodburycounty.org or via our treasurer’s statewide
website:
www.iowatreasurers.org
Property tax and motor vehicle payments may be made
online or in person at all four locations using e-checks, MasterCard,
Visa or Discover cards.
The Treasure Department Teams were honored for
their work in 2001 when Treasurer Bob Knowler was names as the
Outstanding Treasurer in the United States.
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