By JONATHAN ZWEYGARDT
Hays Post

Ellis County tax statements are expected to arrive in mailboxes by Friday after an error was found in the county tax roll.

According to Ellis County Clerk Donna Maskus, there was a data-entry error regarding the Victoria USD 432 and the Victoria Rural Housing Incentive District.

Maskus said her office still is working to figure out a relatively new taxing and accounting system – CIC.

“We are still working with some uniqueness that this county has that they (CIC) haven’t worked with before,” she said.

Commissioner Dean Haselhorst said the county has encountered a number of problems that all seem to be related to CIC.

But both County Treasurer Ann Pfeifer and Maskus said, even though they have had to work through some issues, there are a number of benefits to the nearly two-year-old system.

Pfeifer said state statute requires the county send out statements by Dec. 15 and first-half taxes are due by Dec. 20. Because Dec. 20 falls on a weekend, this year’s payments are due Dec. 22.

Pfiefer said it cost less than $5,000 to reprint and stuff the approximately 35,000 statements.

Tax amounts can be found on the county’s website or people can contact the treasurer’s office and they will look up the information.