Delmont council extended the discount period for residents to pay real estate taxes, but also found out this week that their financial position is relatively strong amid the economic fallout from the covid-19 pandemic.
Council unanimously approved a resolution extending the 2% discount period through Aug. 31. Taxes will then be due at face value through the end of the year.
The move is in line with the provisions of Act 15, the state’s covid-19 disaster emergency declaration.
And while the amount of earned income tax is slightly lower than usual for this time of year, tax collector Marybelle Weber said that nearly 88% of borough taxes have been paid for 2020.
“In that case we don’t have much to worry about,” council President Andy Shissler. “I was concerned that if we’d only gotten something like 50%, we’d have to take out another tax-anticipation note to get us through the summer and fall.”
