Those who haven’t yet paid their property taxes have until Monday, June 30, to do so without a penalty.

Phil Gilbert Jr., director of Warren County’s Tax Claim Bureau, said many people are two years behind on their property taxes, but agreements can be reached to help people keep their homes.

“If you are behind, just stop in the office and we can come to an Agreement to Stay Sale,” Gilbert said. “The process is quick, but requires 25% of the delinquent taxes and splits the payments into three additional payments, one every three months.”

People who are more than one year delinquent on their taxes have received notices and had neon orange signs placed on their property to let them know payment is due. If the taxes are not paid by June 30, the best case scenario is that additional fees of $35 to several hundred dollars may be owed. If action is not taken, the property may go to an upset sale on September 29.

During the upset sale, properties whose owners have failed to pay their taxes will have their property auctioned off, with the bidder responsible for past due taxes, liens and mortgages.

The county is not in the business of evicting people, so a property owner may not be evicted until their property is purchased and a notice of eviction served.

Taxpayers may have noticed something different when they paid their taxes this year. County and township taxes were due in March and school taxes will be due in August.

This helped split the bill into different times of year with smaller bills to pay each time instead of one large one in August.

Those who aren’t if they owe tax money for the past year, visit tax.gss-pa.com/Warren/cc to look up how much is owed or to pay a tax bill before June 30. Payments must be made online or in person at the tax office in the Warren County Courthouse. People who owe two years of back taxes will be listed in an ad in the newspaper in mid-July in addition to potentially having their property go into the September upset sale. Not all of those properties will be in the sale, as many will pay past due taxes before the sale.