Dane County Treasurer's Office

Online payment is temporarily down from 4pm July 31 through 8am August 21 for balancing and settling with all taxing jurisdictions. Credit/debit payments cannot be accepted during this period.

Payment options during this time:

Pay in-person (City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd #114, M-F, 8a-4p)
Drop box (City County Building, 210 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, 24/7)
By mail (Dane County Treasurer, PO Box 1299, Madison WI 53701)

Please Note:

Due Date is July 31
Late payments 1.5% interest and penalty back to February (ex. Feb-Aug 10.5%)
USPS postmark is accepted

Additional property tax information is available on Access Dane.

Mortgage & Title Industry

Information on this page is to assist professionals and others working with paying property taxes.

Payment Options

OPTION 1: full payment by January 31
- Tax bills: calculated & mailed by the 3rd Monday in December
- E-bill on AccessDane: idenitfies "who to pay" & "amount to pay" from the original tax bill
OPTION 2: installments
- City of Madison installments
  - Send to Madison before due dates
  - January 31, March 31, May 31, July 31
  - Send to Dane County after final due date
- Non-Madison installments
  - January 31 (first installment to municipality)
  - July 31 (final installment to Dane County)

PLEASE NOTE:

Dane County does NOT accept wire or ACH payments (see FAQ: Ways to Pay Dane County).
Partial payments are always accepted.
Must pay AT LEAST the amount due by the due date to prevent delinquency.
Timely payment is determined by the postmark affixed by the US Postal Service.
Payments received after 5 working days following a due date accrue monthly 1.5% interest & penalty on unpaid principal as-of February 1 (10.5% in August).
"Who made a payment" is not recorded.
"Delinquencies and late payments" are not reported to credit companies (see Data Extractions below).
E-Statements with the current year taxes are updated AFTER February settlement around February 20 (for payment status on the current year before this, please contact the local municipal treasurer listed in the County Directory).

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Property Tax Information

E-Bill (accessdane.danecounty.gov)
- Who to pay
- When to pay
- Amount to pay from the original tax bill
- Current mill rate on the parcel
E-Statement (accessdane.danecounty.gov)
- Amount due to Dane County for the current month
- Adjustable for future months
- For current year payment status between December and February settlement (around February 20), please contact the local municipal treasurer listed in the County Directory.
Payment History (accessdane.danecounty.gov)
- Tax year to which payments were applied
- Date payments were posted
- Dollar amount of payments
Drainage District Payment Status (accessdane.danecounty.gov)
- Under "District Information"
- Current farm drainage assessment
- Unpaid farm drainage balance due

PLEASE NOTE:

The above message identifies this as a new parcel
- New legal description
- New parcel number
December tax bills are based on parcel status and assessment as-of Janaury 1 in the given calendar year.
- After this parcel exists on January 1, a December tax bill for this parcel will be calculated.
- Check the retired "Parents" at the top of the page for the most current tax information.

Tax bills for retired-parent parcel/s (parcel/s split or merged mid-year) are mailed to the last recorded owner/s of the retired-parent parcel/s.
You may need to check retired-parent parcel/s for tax status, as this would affect the child parcel/s.
Buttons, like the sample above, are at the top of each parcel page in AccessDane and navigate to the respective parent or child parcel/s.
If the parcel is in the City of Madison, please contact the assessor at assessor@cityofmadison.com to identify parent or child parcel/s.

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Overpayments

"Who made a payment" is not recorded.
Overpayments are returned to the person or entity that created the overpayment.
Payment History on AccessDane identifies
- Date payments were posted
- Dollar amount of payments
Payment History on AccessDane should reflect approximately when the bank processed said payment.
Specific payment research: treasurer@danecounty.gov

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Mill Rates

AccessDane
- e-Bill for a specific parcel
- May need to view retired-parent parcel/s for new parcels created this year with no tax information
Current Tax Year
- Dane County
- NOT City of Madison
treasury@cityofmadison.com
- ONLY City of Madison

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Data Extractions

Wis. Stat. Ch. 19 Subchapter II (Public Records and Property)
- Right to inspect or obtain copies of government records
- Only applies to records existing at the time of request
- §19.35(1)(L): “does not require…creat[ing] a new record by extracting information from existing records and compiling the information in a new format.”
TWO parcel data extractions created from multiple records can be provided by email and linked via parcel number
- Property Description Extraction $125
  - Non-confidential owner names
  - Addresses
  - Assessment information
- Tax Information Extraction (Bank Exchange file) $75
  - Current tax year
    - BEFORE July 31 due date: excludes City of Madison
    - AFTER July 31 due date: includes City of Madison
  - Prior tax years: includes all Dane County municipalities
- Format: ASCII text files (readable in a text editor, Excel, or Access)
ONE unclaimed funds data extraction is available as a PDF. See FAQ: Unclaimed Funds Data Extraction Process
Email questions to: treasurer@danecounty.gov
Provide email address & make check payable to:

DANE COUNTY TREASURER
CITY-COUNTY BUILDING, RM 114
210 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD
MADISON, WI 53703