Category Archives: Tax Collect Software

a category for the discussion of any news, tips, and best practices relevant to users and administrators of the avitar tax collect application.

Updating the Tax Kiosk

Posted on May 2, 2023 by Michelle B

The Avitar Tax Collect Internet Kiosk allows you to easily make invoice and transaction records available on the Internet for taxpayers, mortgagees, banks, and title companies to view and pay at any time of day without having to contact you. Therefore, you should … Continue reading →

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Online Workshop – 2023 New Tax Collector Training

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Patty

We have scheduled an online workshop for all our new tax collectors. We will cover topics such as paying invoices, creating prepayments, making corrections, liening, deeding, the billing process and balancing. This session is open to new collectors, whether you … Continue reading →

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Online Help Improvements & FAQ Shortcut

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Michelle B

We have been working incredibly hard to update and streamline the Avitar online documentation. We’ve been adding step-by-step instructions for most processes to compliment the explainers that were there already. For example, on the Lien Notice topic, there is a link to … Continue reading →

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Delinquent Notices, Liening, and Deeding

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Michelle B

With February just a few weeks away, we thought it would be beneficial to write a blog post regarding the upcoming Notice of Arrearage (Delinquent Notice), Liening, and Deeding processes. Specifically, the requirements and dates for each of the processes, in order for you … Continue reading →

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Real Estate Services Payment Tender

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Patty

In our last update (Collect 7.0.5), we added a new payment tender option when processing Real Estate Services payments. If your municipality has opted to have your Real Estate Services tax payments electronically transferred directly into your municipal bank account, … Continue reading →

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Online Workshop–Collect Year End Process

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Patty

We are pleased to offer an online workshop to discuss preparing for year end, including what reports need to be printed and how to export your MS-61 report into DRA’s pdf format. We have scheduled the workshop to coincide with … Continue reading →

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Online Workshop–Second Issue Tax Billing

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Patty

We are pleased to offer an online workshop to discuss preparing your second issue tax bills, including importing the warrant, assigning credits, and printing/exporting your tax bills. We have scheduled the workshop to coincide with the beginning of this annual … Continue reading →

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Edit Lien Book and Page

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Michelle B

You have executed your lien, it has been recorded at the Registry of Deeds, and subsequently returned to you with book and page numbers. Now you need to enter those number values into Avitar Collect. The Edit Book & Page … Continue reading →

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Abatements on First Issue Tax Bills

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Amy

With spring tax season upon us, we want to review the topic of abatements on first issue tax bills and the impact those abatements may have on the second issue tax bill.  If your municipality calculates two property tax warrants … Continue reading →

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Properly Supplementing Timber Taxes

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Patty

We have received several calls recently from concerned tax collectors who have been told that they need to completely change the way they are supplementing Timber/Yield Tax invoices. Initially the guidance indicated that collectors would need to track Timber Yield … Continue reading →

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