Post Messenger Recorder -

The deadline for paying the final installment of 2016 property taxes is July 31, 2017. Adam Gallagher, Dane County Treasurer, encourages mailing your tax payment and not waiting until the last week of July. Mailing your payment early helps make sure that the USPS postmark is timely and provides greater opportunity to correct errors before the deadline. It can take up to fourteen days to resolve an online payment error, a check mailed to the wrong address, or an insufficient funds payment.

“The cost of missing the final tax installment deadline is severe. Under state law, interest and...