Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton issued a statement on Monday about tax collections.  The tax commissioner said, “Now that the due date for 2022 property taxes has passed, I have compiled a report on collections thus far.  As of this morning, we have collected 80.72% for 2022, 98.71% for 2021 and 99.84% for 2020 property taxes.  The older years have some parcels that are protected by bankruptcy, and a few are working under a payment plan.  Others that are still unpaid for 2021 and earlier will go to the collections company for tax sales in 2023.  I still have about $2.3 million to collect for 2022, and I expect the bulk of that to be paid once people start getting their tax refunds in the spring.”