Yes. The length of the training depends on the position, but training for most positions lasts one to two hours. Training for more advanced positions like Assistant Registrar and Moderator typically lasts 3 hours. Training is paid.

Election Day shifts range from 7.5 to 16 hours. Early Voting shifts vary depending on the day of the week but will likely range from 4.5 to 9 hours.

Pay varies, but typically ranges from $15 – $20 per hour.

Standard price guidelines, JD Power (formally NADA) value (clean, average, or used based upon class code)

You have the right of appeal to the Board of Assessment Appeals. The Board meets to review and adjust tax assessment during the months of March (for all types of properties) and September (for Motor Vehicles appearing on the October 1st Grand List). Applications must be filed for the March session between February 1st & 20th. No appoint is necessary for the September session.

If you owned a vehicle as of October 1st, you are responsible for the following July bill. If you disposed of the vehicle after October 1st, you may receive a credit or refund if you provide proof to the Assessor.

If you were on the Grand List as of October 1st, you received a bill. As soon as you register your vehicle in another state, send a copy of the out-of-state registration and returned Connecticut plate receipt to the Assessor; your bill will be prorated.

Town Hall is open, but for the safety of our taxpayers and staff, payments are requested to be mailed, or placed in either the Drop Box in the Tax Office or the one outside the Front Door.  You may also pay online.  We do not accept payments over the phone.

See here a news story on why your motor vehicle assessments may have increased.

Tax Bills will be mailed on June 27,2024 for the 2023 Grand List.  The due date for these bills is July 1,2024 and January 1, 2025.

The last day to pay without penalty for the 1st installment is Thursday, August 1, 2024.

Interest will still be charged after August 1st at a rate mandated by the State of 1.5% per month, or 18% per year from the due date of July 1, 2024.  This means, on August 1st, if you have not paid your first installment of the 2023 Grand List bill, you will be charged 3% interest (2 months due).  Please note interest cannot be waived or adjusted.

The motor vehicle bill you receive in June 2024 is based upon registration of that vehicle effective October 1, 2023.  With the proper proof, your motor vehicle bill may be deleted if the motor vehicle was disposed of prior to October 1,2023 or pro-rated if disposed of between October 2, 2023 and August 31, 2024.  “Disposed of” includes sold, destroyed or registered out of state and not replaced with another vehicle using the same license plate.  You need to submit proof to the Assessor’s Office as soon as possible to ensure credit prior to the penalty period.

In order to obtain a correction or pro-ration toward any motor vehicle assessment, you must submit two forms of proof to verify the property is no longer located in Somers under your ownership.  In accordance with §12-71c(b), application for credit must be made by the December 31st two (2) years after the assessment date in which the credit situation occurred.

If you have any questions regarding the required proof, please contact the Assessor’s Office @ 860-763-8202.

Please note: The only time that the DMV notifies us of a change in the status of your motor vehicle is when you transfer a plate from one vehicle to another. In all other cases, you must bring documentation to the Assessor’s Office, in order to adjust your bill.  The date must appear on the document that this change occurred in order to credit your account properly. All changes will occur immediately upon receipt of this information and a refund form or adjusted bill will be created.  You may also fax this information to 860-763-8228 or email it the Assessor at: kneal@somersct.gov or pthomas@somersct.gov.

If you had an older delinquent account, or our office could not find you, your account was sent to the Collection Agency.  They now have your account.  All questions are to be addressed directly to them at 860-724-9100 or 866-497-2427.  Their office is open from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Eastern time, Monday through Friday. You may also visit their website www.taxserv.com.

The first week of May we will issue Alias Tax Warrants on most people that received a Demand Notice in April 2024, that are not currently in the Tax Sale process or at the Collection Agency.  These accounts are not available to be paid oline, for you must pay State Marshal Tim Poloski directly by calling him at 860-508-6566.

These bills will be generated and due January 1, 2025 because you received a new motor vehicle registration, or have transferred an existing registration, at some time after Oct. 1, 2023, but before Sept. 30, 2024. You are being billed only for the number of months from your new vehicle registration date until the end of the assessment year.

THIS BILL DOES NOT REPLACE, but it is in ADDITION to, YOUR ORIGINAL SECOND INSTALLMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLE TAXES.

SEWER BILLS

Sewer Usage bills were mailed September 29, 2023.  This bill  covers October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.  This bill is due by October 1, 2023 and becomes delinquent after November 1, 2023.  Liens will be filed in May 2024 for all delinquent Sewer Accounts.  All delinquent Sewer Accounts will be sent to the Marshal in June 2024.  Pay Sewer Bills Here!

If you have any outstanding tax bills, you received a Demand Notice (unless your account is already with the Tax Sale Attorney, Collection Agency or State Marshal) the beginning of April 2024.

So what does this mean?

You had until the Demand Due Date listed on your Demand to pay your delinquent taxes.  If you fail to pay by the due date, the Tax Collector MAY (included, but not limited to):

1. Serve an Alias Tax Warrant through a Marshal
2. Send to a Collection Agency that records the delinquency to the Credit Agencies
3. Levy your taxable goods or chattels
4. Enforce by levy and sell their real estate through either a Tax Sale or Third Party
5. Garnish Wages
6. Bank execution – take the money from your bank account

The Demand Notice is the legal document required to send by the Town if we wish to pursue alternative means of collecting tax.

Per State Statute 12-155. Demand and levy for the collection of taxes (a) If any person fails to pay any tax within thirty days after the due date, the collector or the collector’s duly appointed agent shall make personal demand of such person therefor or leave written demand at such person’s usual place of abode or addressed to such person at such person’s last-known place of residence. If such person is a corporation, limited partnership or other legal entity, such written demand may be sent to any person upon whom process may be served to initiate a civil action against such corporation, limited partnership or entity.

(b) After demand has been made in the manner provided in subsection (a) of this section, the collector for the municipality, alone or jointly with the collector of any other municipality owed taxes by such person, may (1) levy for any unpaid tax or any unpaid water or sanitation charges on any goods and chattels of such person and post and sell such goods and chattels in the manner provided in case of executions, or (2) enforce by levy and sale any lien upon real estate for any unpaid tax or levy upon and sell such interest of such person in any real estate as exists at the date of the levy for such tax.  A lien is a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of debt.  Tax liens are superior to mortgage liens, and are independent of demand for.  Liens remain in effect until all taxes, interest and fees are paid in full.  Liens are subject to foreclosure, tax sale and sale/assignments to a third party for collection.

• For a residential property, if you owe more than $3,000 in either Real Estate Taxes and/or Sewer Taxes, or are more than two Grand List years in arrears, you will be identified for a tax sale / lien assignment
• If the property has previously been in a Tax Sale, and becomes one (1) day delinquent
• If the property is abandoned or has no residential dwelling, and you are over one year in arrears
• Commercial properties over one year in arrears

A Tax Sale yet to be planned.  A property listing can be found here:  http://cttaxsales.com/upcoming-tax-sales/ 

PDF of listings: https://www.somersct.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Tax-Sale-Packet.pdf

All questions and pay off quotes need to be addressed directly to Attorney Adam Cohen at 203-330-2230.  The Tax Office cannot answer any questions about accounts in the Tax Sale process.  Information on CT Tax Sales can be found at www.cttaxsales.com.