Session of 2023
HOUSE BILL No. 2317
By Committee on Taxation
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AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to the collection of taxes;
providing that certain tax notices and statements may be transmitted by
electronic means by the county treasurer if consented to by the
taxpayer; amending K.S.A. 79-2001 and 79-2017 and repealing the
existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 79-2001 is hereby amended to read as follows: 79-
2001. (a) As soon as the county treasurer receives the tax roll of the
county, the treasurer shall enter in a column opposite the description of
each tract or parcel of land the amount of unpaid taxes and the date of
unredeemed sales, if any, for previous years on such land. The treasurer
shall cause a notice to be published in the official county paper once each
week for three consecutive weeks, stating in the notice the amount of taxes
charged for state, county, township, school, city or other purposes for that
year, on each $1,000 of valuation.
(b) Each year after receipt of the tax roll from the county clerk and
before December 15, the treasurer shall mail to each taxpayer, as shown by
the rolls, a tax statement which indicates the taxing unit, assessed value of
real and personal property, the mill levy and tax due. In addition, with
respect to land devoted to agricultural use, such statement shall indicate
the acreage and description of each parcel of such land. The tax statement
shall also indicate separately each parcel of real property which is
separately classified for property tax purposes. The county appraiser shall
provide the information necessary for the county treasurer to comply with
the provisions of this section. The tax statement also may include the
intangible tax due the county. All items may be on one statement or may
be shown on separate statements and may be on a form prescribed by the
county treasurer. The statement shall be mailed to the last known address
of the taxpayer or to a designee authorized by the taxpayer to accept the
tax statement, if the designee has an interest in receiving the statement.
When any statement is returned to the county treasurer for failure to find
the addressee, the treasurer shall make a diligent effort to find a
forwarding address of the taxpayer and mail the statement to the new
address. All tax statements mailed pursuant to this section shall be mailed
by first-class mail. The requirement for mailing a tax statement shall
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extend only to the initial statement required to be mailed in each year and
to any follow-up required by this section. Alternatively, the county
treasurer may transmit the tax statement to the taxpayer by electronic
means if such taxpayer consented to service by electronic means.
(c) For tax year 1998, and all tax years thereafter, After receipt of the
tax roll from the county clerk and before December 15, the treasurer shall
mail to each taxpayer, as shown by the tax rolls, a tax information form
which indicates the taxing unit, assessed value of real property for the
current and next preceding taxable year, the mill levy for the current and
next preceding taxable year and, in the case of unified school districts, the
mill levy required by K.S.A. 72-5142, and amendments thereto, shall be
separately indicated, the tax due and an itemization of each taxing unit's
mill levy for the current and next preceding taxable year and the
percentage change in the amount of revenue produced therefrom, if any. In
addition, with respect to land devoted to agricultural use, such form shall
indicate the acreage and description of each parcel of such land. The tax
information form shall also indicate separately each parcel of real property
which is separately classified for property tax purposes. The county
appraiser shall provide the information necessary for the county treasurer
to comply with the provisions of this section. The tax information form
may be separate from the tax statement or a part of the tax statement. The
tax information form shall be in a format prescribed by the director of
property valuation. The tax information form shall be mailed to the last
known address of the taxpayer. When a tax information form is returned to
the county treasurer for failure to find the addressee, the treasurer shall
make a diligent effort to find a forwarding address of the taxpayer and
mail the tax information form to the new address. All tax information
forms mailed pursuant to this section shall be mailed by first class mail.
Alternatively, the county treasurer may transmit the tax information forms
to the taxpayer by electronic means if such taxpayer consented to service
by electronic means.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 79-2017 is hereby amended to read as follows: 79-
2017. In Douglas, Sedgwick, Johnson and Shawnee counties, all taxes on
personal property that remain due and unpaid on February 16 or June 1
shall be collected in the following manner:
The county treasurer on or before March 25 shall send a notice by mail
to the person, firm, unincorporated association, company or corporation to
whom such taxes were assessed, and which remain unpaid on February 16
of any year, to its post office address as shown by the current tax roll.
Alternatively, the county treasurer may transmit the notice to the taxpayer
by electronic means if such taxpayer consented to service by electronic
means.
The county treasurer on or before June 27 shall send a notice by mail to
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the person, firm, unincorporated association, company or corporation to
whom such taxes were assessed, and which remain unpaid on June 1 of
any year, to its post office address as shown by the current tax roll.
Alternatively, the county treasurer may transmit the notice to the taxpayer
by electronic means if such taxpayer consented to service by electronic
means.
Failure to receive any such tax notice shall not relieve such person,
firm, unincorporated association, company or corporation defaulting in
payment of personal taxes from any interest and costs attached thereto.
Such notice shall state the amount of personal tax charged against the
party, and notify the party that the tax may be paid by paying the amount
of the tax as assessed and interest the amount of which shall be computed
in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 79-2004a, and amendments
thereto, on the delinquent tax.
The county treasurer is hereby authorized to accept payment of
delinquent taxes in full without payment of the interest due upon such
delinquent taxes if the amount of the interest due is less than $5 and is
further authorized to accept as payment in full, any interest payment in an
amount not less than $5 less than the full amount of the interest due.
Should such taxes, due and unpaid on February 16 remain unpaid for a
period of 25 days after the mailing of such notice, or taxes due and unpaid
on June 1 remain unpaid for a period of 14 days after the mailing of such
notice, the county treasurer shall issue a warrant signed by the treasurer
directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding the sheriff to levy the
amount of such unpaid taxes and the amount of the interest thereon,
together with the sheriff's fees for collecting the taxes, upon any personal
property, tangible or intangible, of the person, firm, unincorporated
association, company or corporation to whom such taxes were assessed.
To allow the time necessary for preparation of such warrants, the
county treasurer shall not receive any payment of delinquent personal
property taxes or interest thereon, due and unpaid on February 16, during a
period beginning the 26
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day after mailing of notices and extending
through the last regular business day of April in any year or taxes or
interest due and unpaid on June 1, during a period beginning the 15
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after mailing of such notices and extending through the regular business
day of July 15 in any year. Such warrant shall be delivered to the sheriff by
the county treasurer before the first regular business day in May and the
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regular business day in July in each year. Upon receipt of such tax
warrant, the sheriff shall proceed to collect such taxes the same as upon
execution, except that where such taxes were levied and assessed pursuant
to K.S.A. 79-329 through 79-334, and amendments thereto, they shall be
collected as follows:
The sheriff shall cause notice to be given by registered mail to the
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purchaser of the oil and gas from such lease of the amount of such
delinquent taxes and the name of the person against whom they were
assessed and from and after the receipt of such notice such purchaser shall
not pay to the person owing the taxes any of the proceeds of the sale of
any oil or gas from such lease, but shall pay them to the sheriff until the
full amount of such taxes and costs are paid after which the purchaser may
resume the payments for such oil or gas to such person, but this exception
shall not prevent the levy of an execution and sale of the leasehold interest
or the physical personal property on any such lease for the payment of
delinquent taxes owed by the owner thereof.
The sheriff, as soon as the sheriff collects the tax warrant, shall make a
return thereof and shall make a return of all tax warrants delivered to the
sheriff on or before October 1 of the year following the year in which the
tax was levied. If the warrant so returned shows that the tax has been
collected, the sheriff shall pay the tax to the county treasurer. If such return
shows that such tax has not been collected, then the county treasurer shall
file with the clerk of the district court of the treasurer's county an abstract
of the total amount of unpaid taxes and interest due plus penalties and
costs. The clerk shall enter the total amount of the unpaid taxes in the
appearance docket and note the entry in the general index. No fee shall be
charged for either such entry. The total amount shall become a judgment in
the same manner and to the same extent as any other judgment under the
code of civil procedure and shall become a lien on real estate from and
after the time of the filing thereof. A transcript of the judgment may be
filed with the clerk of the district court in any other county and when the
judgment is entered in the manner provided above, the judgment shall
become a lien upon real estate located in such county in the same manner
as is provided in case of other judgments. No fee shall be made for making
the entry. Execution, garnishment or other proceedings in aid of execution
may issue within the county or to any other county on the judgment in the
same manner as on judgments under the code of civil procedure except
that any real estate taken upon execution for the collection of such taxes
shall be sold without appraisement. None of the exemptions provided for
in the code of civil procedure shall apply to any such judgment but no such
judgment secured for taxes on personal property shall be levied against a
homestead.
At the time of filing the abstract of the taxes, interest, penalties and
costs with the clerk of the district court, the county treasurer shall serve
notice, in writing, on the county counselor of such filing. It shall be the
duty of the county counselor to commence such proceedings as are
necessary for the collection of such judgment. If execution is not issued
within five years from the date of the entry of any such judgment, or if five
years shall have intervened between the date of the last execution issued
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on such judgment and the time of issuing another writ of execution
thereon, such judgment shall become dormant, and shall cease to operate
as a lien on the real estate of the delinquent taxpayer. Such dormant
judgment may be revived in like manner as dormant judgments under the
code of civil procedure. Any such judgment remaining uncollected after
seven years may be allowed to become dormant if the county
commissioners determine, after consideration of all relevant facts, that it is
not reasonable to expect that such judgment will be collected. The board of
county commissioners may allow such judgments to become dormant at
any time if the original amount of the judgment was less than $50.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 79-2001 and 79-2017 are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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