Helping Pennsylvania Taxing Districts Hit By Unpaid Property Taxes Generate New Revenue For Their Budgets Since 2003
October 2011
The County Tax Lien Converter
Online Newsletter From Municipal Revenue Service
Pennsylvania Counties Face Challenging State Budget Cuts
To Human Services As They Seek Out Revenue Alternatives
Counties across Pennsylvania are now struggling with budget
cuts enacted by the state. In the last three years, the Human
Services Development Fund has been reduced by more than 72
percent. It should be noted this program funds services setup as
alternatives to more costly venues.
Counties have asked the state departments to consider
eliminating mandates for which the funding has been cut. Of
greater concern is the apparent reduction of Medicare and
Medicaid funds which fund services for the poor and aged in
nursing homes.
Pennsylvania Counties carry the responsibility to oversee and
manage a myriad of revenue sources needed to maintain
regional human services. Maneuvering through a labyrinth of
funding sources is needed as counties search for ways to fund
their budgets, much of which is taken up by human services.
Municipal Revenue Service (MRS) provides the means to cut
through the maze and provide access to revenue held in limbo in
the form of unpaid, delinquent property taxes. MRS' proven
system buys tax liens, providing the county with 90 cents on the
dollar today, while its tax claim directors continue to collect
unpaid taxes. It is in fact new revenue to the Taxing District
because the District has sold their receivables to a non-profit
purchaser. Since we’re not tax collectors, we don’t interfere with
that process and never retain the 10% penalty fees and 9%
yearly interest rates on the delinquent tax lien, so the following
year when you renew with MRS, you receive that revenue as
well, on top of the original 90% instant revenue MRS provides.
County tax claim directors and business managers interested in
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what MRS can do to help fill the gaps in their budgets that support mandated line items, like human services and school districts, need
to look no further than their professional counterparts across the state and are encouraged to contact the following Counties that have
benefited from MRS services: Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Chester, Clarion, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fayette,
Indiana, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Luzerne, Mercer, Monroe, Schuylkill, Venango, Washington and Westmoreland.
Municipal Revenue Services Associate To Attend Pennsylvania
Tax Claim Bureau Association 2011 Fall Conference
The Pennsylvania Tax Claim Bureau Association will be holding its
2011 Fall Conference from October 18 - 22 at The Inn at Pocono
Manor located in Pocono Manor, PA. Diane Blarr, Municipal
Revenue Service Associate, will be attending the conference.
"This is the first time I've attended one of these conferences,"
Diane explains. "I felt it was time to make myself available and
accessible to the very people that are an integral part of a system
that creates instant revenue for counties by selling tax liens that
doesn't interfere with tax collection, in part because we're not tax
collectors. It's also an opportunity to put a face to the process that
provides 90% of delinquent taxes now, without waiting 3-4 years,
and without the bait and switch tactics that left some counties with
only 60% or less because they didn't use our system. I look
forward to some one-on-one discussions with association
members that generally have been skeptical of selling tax liens
because they're unaware of our successful, patent-pending
process with a proven track record that stretches back 8 years."
The Pennsylvania Tax Claim Bureau Association was created to
stimulate cooperation between county tax claim directors across
the Commonwealth, attain uniformity of their office functionalities,
sponsor legislation and improve their services to the public.
