IMPORTANT TAX INFORMATION:

Dayton Continues Delinquent Tax Collection Efforts

The City of Dayton is expanding its efforts to collect income taxes owed to the City by some Dayton residents.

Through the end of August 2009, up to 6,500 residents will receive a letter informing them of possible unpaid City of Dayton income taxes from tax year 2007. The letters are being mailed to Dayton residents who filed a federal tax return for 2007 but did not file a City tax return for that year.

Residents receiving notices must respond in writing within 30 days, providing a completed questionnaire, a copy of their 2007 federal tax return and associated W2s or other relevant documents.

Taxpayers found liable for unpaid and/or unfiled taxes will be required to pay penalties and interest on unpaid taxes. Failure to pay delinquent taxes may result in legal action and/or reporting unpaid debt to credit reporting bureaus.

All responses and inquiries should be directed to Central Collection Agency at 800-223-6317. The City of Dayton cannot respond to inquiries from individual taxpayers regarding this particular collection effort.

The City of Dayton has contracted with the Central Collection Agency of Cleveland to send the taxpayer notices and to collect unpaid taxes. By law, the City of Dayton, as a city with a population under 250,000, may not petition the IRS for federal taxpayer information. Central Collection Agency does have the ability to gather such data from the IRS, however. It specializes in collecting municipal income taxes, serves approximately 40 jurisdictions in Ohio and can be found online at www.ccatax.ci.cleveland.oh.us.

Dayton’s delinquent tax collection effort follows a “Tax Amnesty” program in 2008 that collected nearly $600,000 in income taxes owed to the City by taxpayers. Tax collection notices for additional groups of taxpayers are planned for the remainder of 2009.