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BRIDGETON
GOES “ELECTRONIC” WITH ONLINE TAX SALE DECEMBER 18TH
Starting with the 2017 tax sale, the City of Bridgeton
will be joining upwards of 50 other townships and municipalities throughout New
Jersey, along with communities in several other states that now conduct their
tax sales electronically online. According to City officials, the online or
electronic format is where a number of municipal functions are now headed and the
time was right to make the change.
“The electronic tax sale is the wave of the future and
something all municipalities will be incorporating over the next several years
and while the initial change is challenging, it will be a more efficient and
seamless process going forward”, said Municipal Tax Collector Mary Pierce.
In addition to a more efficient process that frees up
staff time, the electronic online tax sale format also increases the number of
potential bidders purchasing tax liens, which then might ultimately bring more
tax revenue into municipal coffers.
Under the old process, prospective bidders would have to
physically come to the location of the tax sale in order to bid, but with the
new online format, bidders can submit bids from the comfort of their own homes
or offices wherever that happens to be. The hope is that the new online format
will open up the process beyond the limited number of bidders that in the past,
could participate only in-person.
“The goal of the tax sale always remains the same- which
is to collect unpaid taxes in order to provide services to residents. In the
past, the tax sale tended to be a very small and local event because bidders
had to travel to Bridgeton to take part in the tax sale. By transitioning our
process to the online format, it expands the bidder base regionally and even
nationally” said Pierce.
Interested bidders need only visit https://bridgeton.newjerseytaxsale.com
to participate in the December 18th tax sale and find out everything they need
to know about bidding rules, how to register, the bidding process, minimum
deposits, and the deadlines in place for successful bidders.
Aside from the date of the tax sale itself, another
important date leading up to the sale according to Tax Collector Mary Pierce is
December 15th because on that Friday, when the tax office closes at
4:30pm, whoever remains on the list will be in the tax sale the following
Monday (December 18th).
“As people come in and get paid current, they will be
removed from the tax sale list and I will be sending updates over to the online
vendor “Real Auction” regularly to ensure that those properties are removed
from the final tax sale list but the cutoff to get paid current is the close of
business on December 15th” Pierce said.
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