If you haven’t paid your property taxes for 2011, you’d better get that checkbook handy.
Technically, today is the last day you can pay without facing a delinquency fee or, worse, having your property placed in a tax certificate sale and a lien placed on the parcel.
But because March 31 falls on the weekend this year, the taxes – which were actually due by March 1 – can be paid in person or online through Monday without paying a penalty, according to Linda Baer, assistant director of customer support at the Lee County Tax Collector’s office.
“We will allow a March payment on Monday or online,” Baer said. “If you mail your payment, it must be postmarked by March 31.”