Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 906
Application of payments to unpaid taxes
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The municipal officers of a municipality may, upon request of the municipal treasurer or the tax collector, require that any tax payment received from an individual as payment for any property tax be applied against outstanding or delinquent taxes due on that property in chronological order beginning with the oldest unpaid tax bill. Taxes may not be applied to a period for which an abatement request or appeal has not been resolved unless approved in writing by the taxpayer.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 848-A · Assessment ratio evidence
- 849 · -- judgment and execution
- 850 · Assessment of costs
- 891 · Collection of delinquent county taxes
- 891-A · School subsidies withheld from delinquent municipalities
- 892 · Interest on delinquent state taxes
- 892-A · Interest on delinquent county taxes
- 893 · Tax collector liable to inhabitants
- 894 · Delinquent tax collectors; fine
- 895 · Warrant form; for completion of collection by treasurer
- 896 · Personal property distrained; sold as on execution
- 897 · Real estate levied on; sold as on execution
- 898 · Tax collector to account when taken on execution
- 899 · Municipalities may choose another tax collector
- 900 · Payments to former tax collector in dispute; procedure
- 901 · Remedy of owners of property taken for default of others
- 902 · Amendments permitted in actions to collect taxes
- 903 · Defendant estopped to deny title; exceptions
- 904 · Treasurer's receipt as evidence of redemption
- 905 · Municipalities may set off moneys due against taxes
- 906 · Application of payments to unpaid taxes
- 941 · Civil action with special attachments; procedure
- 942 · Tax lien certificate; procedure
- 942-A · Aggregate tax lien certificate for time-share units; procedure
- 943 · Tax lien mortgage; redemption; discharge; foreclosure
- 943-A · Application for abatement
- 943-B · Credit reporting; payment during redemption period
- 943-C · Sale of foreclosed properties
- 944 · Foreclosure for equitable relief, procedure
- 945 · Foreclosure in action for equitable relief; alternative…
- 946 · Action for equitable relief after period of redemption; procedure
- 946-A · Tax-acquired property and the restriction of title action
- 946-B · Tax-acquired property and the restriction of title action
- 946-C · Abandoned tax-acquired property
- 947 · Presumption of validity
- 948 · Supplemental assessments; enforcement of lien
- 949 · Disbursement of excess funds
- 991 · Distraint for taxes; procedure; sale
- 992 · Disposition of surplus
- 993 · Arrest; notice; procedure; fees