TAXES
Crystal Lake Treasurer, Jill Marble, is responsible for collecting, depositing, accounting and distributing taxes (and all other revenue the township is charged to collect.) Therefore, Jill is your go-to person for your tax collection questions. But many solutions can be found online, if you want to explore our website's BS&A software and other sources of answers.
Want To Look Up Your Own Answers? Our records are public records! For transparency we provide quick access to property assessment and tax collection/payment information: Online access to tax and assessor information is now available and totally transparent to the public by clicking on button above. Everything for every taxable parcel in Crystal Lake Township is available here, for you or a neighbor to see, from property descriptions to a history of taxes. Need help learning how to navigate bsaonline.com? If us a call when you're in front of your computer and we can give you a quick "how-to" lesson.
There are a variety of ways to pay your taxes:
· Drop off your payment at the township hall. There is a black drop box near the lower ADA door. (Do not use the red-white & blue ballot box.) · Mail your payment via USPS, UPS or FEDEX. · Pay online via with one of two options: via www.bsaonline.com and use your credit card where a 3-percent of your total tax bill "convenience fee" will apply; OR via electronic check with a flat $3.00 fee. See below. · Or perhaps you'd like to employ an transaction known as a Automatic Clearing House (ACH) which is the electronic network used for financial transactions in the U.S. Put another way, ACH is essentially the "highway" that money is electronically routed bank to bank and that bypasses you having to write and send a paper check. For this you must first contact the Treasurer for more details and/or complete the necessary form to get started. It will be the portal to your online bank account. Please note the parcel numbers in the memo line.
Receipts for your tax payments:
No receipt is automatically mailed to you. Your cancelled check or credit card statement could be your receipt. Otherwise, you must specifically ask for a receipt when you pay your taxes OR go online to bsaonline.com to print one for yourself. 
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Collecting Taxes and Treasurer's Mandated Office Hours:
The township treasurer must be in her office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to receive tax payments on the last day taxes are due and payable before being returned as delinquent under MCL 211.55. MCL 211.44(2)(b)) MCL 211.55 refers to the last day of February as the last day that taxes are due and payable before being returned as delinquent to the county treasurer, Kelly Long, and provides for the unpaid taxes to be returned as delinquent to the county treasurer the next day. The last day to pay 2024 "winter" property taxes without incurring any interest or penalty is Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. On that day, Treasurer Marble may choose to hold office hours. The last day to pay 2024 property taxes before they are returned as delinquent is Feb. 28, 2025 (or any other year, the last day of February). According to MCL 211.45, treasurers must hold office hours. The treasurer also must be in her office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to receive tax payments for collection of "summer" taxes on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. The last say taxes are due and payable before interest is added under MCL 211.441(5); Sept. 14 this year is a Sunday. Townships Boards, under Public Act 129 of 2019, may appoint a designee for the treasurer who can act on her behalf for these tax collection purposes. This designee can be a deputy treasurer, elected official or another individual. Hot Topic in the Community: HEADLEE AMENDMENT and possible RE-SET OF YOUR TAXATION RATE. You're going to be hearing more and more about this topic in the coming months and years. We urge you to study up on what exactly "Headlee" refers to and what "re-setting" means for your millage rates. Choose to click on any of the following for links to primers and for more information, or google more articles: 1) Benzie website link 2) Michigan State University Extension Office article 3) Benzie County Pamphlet 4) Library Association Handout. Helpful Links: Property Tax Estimator Personal Property Tax Exemption Principal Residence Exemption Disabled Veterans Exemption Information Tax Proration Calculator Michigan Taxpayers Guide Michigan Department of Treasury Notices & Updates:
Links: Property Tax Estimator Personal Property Tax Exemption Principal Residence Exemption Disabled Veterans Exemption Information Tax Proration Calculator Michigan Taxpayers Guide Michigan Department of Treasury |
