{"id":12784,"date":"2025-10-23T18:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:48:15","slug":"taxpayer-information-tax-rates-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12784\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer Information & Tax Rates for 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tax bill lookup<\/a> | Bill payment<\/a> | FAQ<\/a> | Tax rates<\/a><\/p>\n

Tax bills for the 2025-26 school year are in the mail. This year\u2019s tax bills are due Tuesday, Sept. 30. Bills can be paid by mail or in person at Pioneer Bank. Payment information, school tax rates, frequently asked questions (FAQ) and more can be found below.<\/p>\n

Tax Bill Information<\/p>\n

Residents of the Bethlehem Central School District can look up their school tax bill online by clicking on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Itemized exemptions on 2025-26 tax bills<\/p>\n

The school district uses the Northeast Regional Information Service (NERIC) for tax bill services. NERIC has alerted district\u00a0officials that the 2025-26 BCSD tax bills mailed to district residents do not itemize\/list all tax exemptions for qualified taxpayers. The exemptions have been applied to the taxable amount, but are not printed individually on the bill.\u00a0The tax amount due on the 2025-26 printed bills is correct.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taxpayers can use the\u00a0district\u2019s online tax bill lookup<\/a>\u00a0to view or print a bill that lists all itemized exemptions.<\/p>\n

Paying Your Tax Bill<\/p>\n

The due date for school tax bill payment (without penalty) is Tuesday, Sept. 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE:\u00a0Tax payments cannot be accepted at the Town of Bethlehem offices.<\/p>\n

Mail-In Payments (must be clearly postmarked by USPS on or before Sept. 30, 2025, to avoid penalty):\u00a0Checks should be made payable to the Bethlehem Central Tax Collector.
\nMail payment**, along with the appropriate bill stub to:
Bethlehem Central School District<\/p>\n

In-Person Payments (must be received on or before Sept. 30, 2025, to avoid penalty):\u00a0This option is only available from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. No payments can be accepted after October 31. In order to make your school tax payment in person,\u00a0you must bring your entire bill\u00a0with you to one of the following locations:<\/p>\n

Pioneer Bank\u00a0\u2013 Delmar Branch 184 Delaware Avenue, Delmar M-W: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Th-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
\nPioneer Bank\u00a0\u2013 Glenmont Branch 329 Glenmont Road, Glenmont M-W: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Th-F: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,\u00a0 Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.<\/p>\n

Credit card payments are NOT accepted at Pioneer Bank. Credit card payments must be made online.<\/p>\n

Online Payments (must be received on or before Sept. 30, 2025, to avoid penalty):<\/p>\n

Credit card:\u00a0Pay your school taxes using your Visa, Mastercard or Discover credit card.\u00a0Click here to be taken to our online payment provider\u2019s site<\/a>. Their fee includes a 2.35% site fee per transaction. Each parcel tax payment incurs a separate transaction fee.\u00a0 A per-item minimum of $2 is charged for all transactions, and there is a $10 charge-back fee for credit cards.
\nE-check:\u00a0This is a convenient, fully automated electronic payment system allowing you to pay taxes directly from your checking or savings account. Please make sure that e-checks are allowed on the account you are using.\u00a0 A $0.50 fee is charged on all settled transactions, and $15 will be charged for checks returned due to non-sufficient funds.\u00a0Click here to pay by E-check<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Frequently Asked Questions<\/p>\n

To see our taxpayer FAQ, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

School Tax Rates<\/p>\n

The Board of Education typically sets the tax rates for each school year in August. The tax rates are based upon the total tax levy for the year in the approved budget and final municipal assessments for the Town of Bethlehem and the Town of New Scotland. Tax rates sometimes vary between the towns because property in each is assessed at different levels in relation to full market value. After the towns submit final assessment information to the state Office of Real Property Services each summer, the state assigns each community an equalization rate to account for these differences in assessment practices. The equalization process is designed to fairly apportion the total tax levy between the towns and result in similar tax bills for properties with similar values regardless of municipality. The district does not control any part of the assessment or equalization process.<\/p>\n

Listed below are the school tax rates for the past several years. Tax rates are per $1,000 of assessed property value.\u00a0*Note:\u00a0The district sets final tax rates each August, after the towns finalize assessment figures and the state sets the equalization rates.<\/p>\n

Town:\u00a0Bethlehem<\/p>\n

2025-26:\u00a0\u00a0$22.33
\n2024-25:\u00a0\u00a0$22.27
\n2023-24:\u00a0$21.61
\n2022-23:\u00a0$21.27
\n2021-22:\u00a0$21.51<\/p>\n

Town:\u00a0New Scotland<\/p>\n

2025-26:\u00a0\u00a0$21.99
\n2024-25:\u00a0\u00a0$22.59
\n2023-24:\u00a0$21.90
\n2022-23:\u00a0$22.58
\n2021-22:\u00a0$21.98<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tax bill lookup | Bill payment | FAQ | Tax rates Tax bills for the 2025-26 school year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-12784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}