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PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES

• This office maintains all tax accounts for personal property including billing, processing additions, abatements and tax liens.
  
  
• Personal property tax bills are mailed throughout the taxable year (July 1^st through June 30^th), depending on when the personal property tax returns were filed by a business.  For any taxable year, the taxes billed are based on personal property located in Maryland as of January 1^st of that same year.
  
  
• Personal property tax is an annual tax on business owned personal property.  Personal property generally includes furniture, fixtures, office and industrial equipment, machinery, tools, supplies, inventory and any other property not classified as real property.  Most businesses must file a personal property tax return with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) each year.  If you are unsure whether you are required to file, please contact the SDAT at 1-888-246-5941.
  
  
• For questions regarding your personal property tax return, business closings, personal property assessments or other related issues, please contact the State Department of Assessments and Taxation in Baltimore at 410-767-1170 (for corporations, LLC’s, LLP’s and limited partnerships) or 410-767-4991 (for sole proprietors and general partnerships).
  

Pay Your Personal Property Taxes

You may now review and/or pay your real estate and personal property taxes by check or credit card.  Calvert County Government takes full advantage of internet security in the handling of your banking and credit card information.

BankServ Corporation charges a fee for processing your check payment. Each transaction costs the user .50.  

Official Payments Corporation charges a fee for processing your credit card payment. The amount of the fee is determined by the amount of the payment and is automatically added to your transaction.  The fee is 3% for payments between $1,000 and $9,999 and higher for payments that are less.  We are looking into ways to lower this.

(no portion of these fees is retained by Calvert County Government).

Telephone service is not available for check payments,  yet.  To pay by telephone using a credit card, use the toll free number: 888-2PAY-TAX (888-272-9829). When prompted, enter 3013 for Calvert County Government payments. You will be asked to enter your credit card information.

Pay Your Personal Property Taxes 
**NOTE:  IF YOU GET A RE-CONNECT LINK, CLICK IT TO PROCEED**    

Instructions for Paying Your Personal Property Tax Bill

• Enter one of the following:
  • Owner’s Name: Last Name, First Name MI
  • Property Code: Property Code of the account (The first character must be capitalized).
• Please be patient. There are a large number of records that must be searched to process your request.
• Click on the box to the left of the Include Prior Years and Include Paid Bills option to select these.
• Click on the Submit Request button. The “Personal Property Detail Information” screen appears.
  Note: If the “Selected Personal Property” screen appears, more than one account met your search criteria.
• If the account you want to look at is listed on this screen, click on the Property Code in the left column to select it.
• If the account you want to look at is not listed on this screen, move your mouse to the Options button at the top of the screen. In the menu that appears, click on the New Search option and type more specific information.
• Click on the “View/Pay Bill” button at the bottom to view “Personal Property Bill Information”.
• Click on Payments/Credits to view the “Billing History” for this bill.
• To return to the “Personal Property Bill Information” screen, move your mouse to the Options button at the top of the screen. In the menu that appears, click on the Bill Info option.