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New Payee for San Bernardino County Property Taxes

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Real Estate Agent with Diamond Ridge Realty

New Payee for San Bernardino County Property Taxes

San Bernardino County Tax Collector Larry Walker has announced that property tax payments for San Bernardino County should now be made payable to "SBC Tax Collector" effective immediately.  No longer will property owners in the County be required to keep track of who is the office holder in charge of tax payments!

The County finally caught on that making the payments out to the individual office holders name was a bad policy as this opened the door for misappropriation of payments made out in the name of an individual person.  While there are no documented cases of this type of payment problem in San Bernardino, there was a problem in a different county when someone with the same name as the tax collector was able to deposit checks intended for the county.

I am sure that we all welcome this change implementing a new payee for San Bernardino property taxes!

David Dee
RMX REALTY - Alhambra, CA
Real Estate - San Gabriel Valley (L.A.) & N. Orang

Michael, sounds like the right thing to do! Wow, that is magnificently scarely considering the ramifications of such unfortunate circumstances should it land in the wrong hand.

May 25, 2010 07:26 PM
Kathy Clulow
Uxbridge, ON
Trusted For Experience - Respected For Results

Michael - wow ..... what a no brainer this was ..... around here the check is payable to the taxing authority, IE The Township of Uxbridge, not the person or the position held.

May 26, 2010 02:33 AM
Michael J. O'Connor
Diamond Ridge Realty - Corona, CA
Eastvale - 951-847-4883

For years I've always wondered why the checks are made out to an individual's name.  It really did seem to me like a no brainer that should have been done years ago.

But San Bernardino County elected officials run things in their own way....

May 26, 2010 04:08 AM