County News

Real Estate and Personal Property tax bills are being mailed. If you do not receive your tax bills by Thanksgiving, please call our office so we can get them to you. Per State Statutes, Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve a taxpayer of his/her obligation to pay the taxes when due.

Tax billing information can be found at https://municipalonlinepayments.com/capegirardeaucounty (or the Municipal Online Payment box already on website).

Tax bills may be paid online at https://billpay.forte.net/CAPEGIRARDEAUCOMOTAX/ with an additional fee (or the pay taxes online box already on website).

All 2022 tax bills are due on December 31, 2022.  If mailing, please make sure to get the official post office postmark on your envelopes on or before December 31^st.

Anything postmarked or paid after December 31^st will be late and interest and penalties will apply.

Plan ahead — The offices in Cape and Jackson will be closed on Saturday, December 31, 2022.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY COMMISSION TO HOLD HEARING
ON REVISED 2022 PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX RATES

A public hearing will be held at 9:00 AM, Thursday, September 29, 2022 at the County Administration Building, 1 Barton Square, 3^rd Floor Commission Chambers, Jackson, Missouri 63755, at which time citizens may be heard on the property tax rates proposed to be set by the Cape Girardeau County Commission. The tax rates shall be set to produce the revenues which the budget for the fiscal year shows to be required from the property tax.

NEWS RELEASE
June 2022

Barbara Gholson, County Collector, reminds those individuals or organizations planning to operate a fireworks stand in Cape Girardeau County, which includes all cities within the county, that each location is required to have a county merchant’s license. The cost of each license is $25.

The merchant license is available from either the Jackson office located in the Administrative Building, #1 Barton Square, Suite 303, or the Cape office located at 2311 Bloomfield Rd, Suite 102. Office hours are 8 am to 4:30 pm, including the noon hour, Monday thru Friday.
Fireworks stands may be operated in the county from June 20 to July 10. However, each city may have a local ordinance stating different time frames.

A state license is also required for each stand, owners may contact the division of fire safety in Jefferson City for more information.

FIREWORKS UNIT
DIVISION OF FIRE SAFETY
PO Box 581
JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102
PHONE (573) 751-2930

Other questions concerning the county license, please call 243-4476.