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Welcome to the World of the Woodbury County Treasurer, his deputies and
staff. You will find here a knowledgeable, ready to serve group of
individuals that staff three departments, all here for the convenience
of the residents and taxpayers of Woodbury County.
The Property tax division collects taxes for real estate property,
mobile homes, utilities, industrial equipment, machinery, grain,
buildings on leased land, and city and county special assessments.
The Motor Vehicle Division of the Treasurer's Office issues vehicle
titles and licenses, registers, collects all vehicle fees for the
residents of Woodbury County. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
issues hunting and fishing licenses, and also processes titles and
registrations for boats, ATVs, and snowmobiles. The Treasurer Department
is also responsible for tax sale duties such as, processing tax sale
redemptions, issuing tax sale deeds, processing tax suspensions, and
processing plat and mobile home tax clearances.
Here are some other services you may or may not be aware of, some
already in place, and some in the future.
A joint venture has been formulated with the Iowa D.O.T. to make drivers
license and vehicle registration renewals more convenient. We now have
two drivers license staff stationed in our Motor Vehicle Department in
the Trosper/Hoyt building. We also staff two Motor Vehicle specialists
in the Drivers License Station at the Market Place Mall. This makes it
possible for you to renew both licenses with one stop.
The Woodbury County Treasurer's offices in Sioux City (Motor Vehicle-Trosper/Hoyt
Building) and Anthon are the only treasurer's offices in the state to
offer DNR services.
Motor vehicle license renewal via the Internet will be available by
early spring, 2001. The Iowa D.O.T. is currently completing their
website to enable this service. The Woodbury County Treasurer has a
unique "economic development" plan. The county's funds are kept in all
Woodbury County banks, because they all pay property taxes, and because
these funds can then be available to loan back out to Woodbury County
residents. The interest earned on the funds return nearly $1,200,000 per
year, which reduce the property tax askings by by that much.
Woodbury County's tax askings for the past 10 years have increased by
16%. This averages out to 1.6% per year, far below the rate of
inflation.
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