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By Gerald Ochs
Special to the Rappahannock News
Rappahannock County has collected nearly $50,000 in delinquent taxes, penalties and interest over the past two months from businesses and individuals who were heretofore unable or reluctant to part with those funds, according to the Treasurer’s Office.
Though the money collected represents a small fraction of annual real estate tax receipts in the county, the present austere budget climate in Richmond and Washington, D.C. means that even more of the services delivered locally must be paid for locally, and so every dollar counts.
It is no coincidence that county coffers are benefiting now from a relatively high rate of delinquent tax payments.
The notice of real estate tax delinquencies in the March 27 issue of the Rappahannock News and a follow-up article saying more than $600,000 in real estate taxes was
96.3%