THE WINNER IS... JOSE LOPEZ!
 Winner Of The Online Customer Service Survey Drawing
On Tuesday, March 2, 2010, Martha Burke, Director of Compliance & Taxpayer Affairs for the Tax Collector's Office, awarded Jose Lopez a $100 Publix Gift Card for participating in our recent online survey. Jose's name was selected at random from over 1,700 names submitted into the drawing. Jose learned of the $100 drawing because he was one of over 40,000 online customers who received an email inviting them to participate in addition to all of our walk-in visitors! Jose is a billing manager for a local durable medical goods retailer in Winter Haven and states that he prefers to do his transactions online.
Note: No taxpayer funds were used for the awarding of a gift card.
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TAX COLLECTOR HOSTS FREE MOBILE HOME CLINIC
 Get Your Tax and Licensing Questions Answered
On Thursday, March 4, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., the public is invited to attend a free clinic that will address tax compliance related to mobile homes located in Polk County. Mobile home tenants, owners or landlords, and mobile home managers will benefit from attending this event. For more information, click here...
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TAXES TAXES TAXES WEBINAR
 Webinar Featured Opportunity To Learn About Taxes
It's was all about taxes during a live interactive webinar on Monday, Feb. 8, from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
A panel of experts was on hand to answer questions from the webinar audience about federal income taxes, state sales taxes and local property taxes.
Those logged into PGTV online heard from Polk County Tax Collector Joe Tedder, as well as Jim Noullet, C.P.A. , with the NCT Group of Lakeland, Florida. Online panelists included Mark Zych, Director of Dispute Resolution with the Florida Department of Revenue, who provided subject matter expertise on sales tax.
Tune in to PGTV to view the rebroadcast of the webinar. Click her for PGTV...
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BUY 2009 KIDS TAG ART!
 Start The New Year By Ordering A Kids Art Tag
Kids Tag Art, a fundraising project that inspires fifth grade art students to design their own specialty plate art, announces fifth grade students who recently received the 2009 Awards of Distinction.
This year, 130 students' tag art designs were selected from fifth graders from all across Polk County. These designs will become part of the 2009 Kids Tag Art display, a mobile collage of license tag art which will travel around the county over the coming months.
For more on this and how to buy a 2009 Kids Tag or prior year tags, click here...
Also, click here to see more about Kids Tag Art in the latest issue of Art-i-facts Magazine (on page 33)!
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SPOTLIGHT ON TOURIST TAXES
 Tax Collector Writes Letter To The Editor
Joe Tedder, Tax Collector, recently sent a letter to the editor that was published in the December 6th edition of The Ledger. The purpose of the letter was to explain what the Tax Collector's Office is pursuing a lawsuit against major online travel companies. To review the letter,
click here...
To see the latest Tourist Development Tax Distribution Report, click here...
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PAY WITH VISA ONLINE; BUT NOT IN TAX OFFICES
 Visa Everywhere Except In The Tax Collector's Office
Effective May 1, 2009, VISA will no longer be accepted at the counter in Tax Collector's Office branches. VISA has ordered government agencies, including the Polk County Tax Collector's Office, to stop conducting lawful counter service payment transactions for tax payments, such as vehicle registration and business taxes. VISA is requiring government agencies, including the Tax Collector's Office, to sign merchant agreements that would force them to pass on VISA's charges to all customers, not just those who are using their credit cards at the counter.
MasterCard, American Express & Discover continue to be accepted by the Tax Collector's Office at the counter, through the mail, by way of automated telephone and online at www.PolkTaxes.com. Because of VISA's order, the Tax Collector's Office is limited to accepting VISA by way of mail, automated telephone and online transactions. For more information, click here...
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TRY OUR PROPERTY TAX TRACKING FEATURE
 TaxTrack Helps Manage Multiple Property Tax Accounts
TaxTrack is a useful online service provided at no charge by the Tax Collector's Office which allows for the management of multiple property tax accounts in an easy to use interface. With TaxTrack you can add multiple property tax accounts to your profile and manage them as a group, or export all the information from your accounts to other formats. To start using TaxTrack or for more information,
click here...
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