Macon County Collector Rhonda Anno’s office revised its notice of tax certification sale on Monday, after the Chronicle published the notice the office was serving that day. The updated notice, posted at a new address carrying “Updated 8-17-26” in its file name, names 53 parcels. The notice the county was publishing when our story ran named 70.
In a Facebook comment on that story, Anno wrote that we had used an older list and that a current one was on the county website. What we reported was the document her office was serving at the time. For several hours after her comment, the collector’s site continued to serve that same document; the revised file did not replace it until later in the day. Anyone who pulled a copy Monday should pull it again.
The revision drops the combined aggregate from $309,281.29 to $297,546.42, a reduction of $11,734.87 before the $60 advertising charge and $10.98 certified letter fee that appear on every parcel. Individual aggregates now run from $40.45 to $186,047.78. The largest remains a Comptons, LLC tract at 708 S. Missouri St. Parcels come off when the taxes are paid, and more can come off before the sale opens.
One point of terminology, because it matters here. Anno called the document a list. It is a notice. Under RSMo 140.170 the collector must publish notice of the sale, and that notice is what tells owners and bidders what is being sold, when, and where. It is not an informal handout that can be swapped out quietly; it is the instrument the sale runs on.
Everything else on the face of the notice is unchanged. It still carries the July 13 date and Anno’s signature, still cites RSMo 140.170, and still sets the sale for 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24. It also still says the sale will be held “at the south front door of the courthouse, in Macon at 101 E. Washington St.”
In the same Facebook comment, Anno wrote that the sale will not be at the south front door of the courthouse; it will be upstairs in the small courtroom. She added that attendees will be checked for weapons before entering, and that anyone who wants to bid will need to sign an affidavit in the collector’s office, before the sale starts, stating that they do not owe taxes in the state of Missouri.
None of that appears in the updated notice. The notice is the document the statute requires the collector to publish, and it names the south front door.
A tax certification sale is the collector’s statutory route for collecting unpaid property taxes. Failure to receive a tax bill does not erase the tax. Call the collector’s office at 660-385-3214 for a current payoff, to confirm where the sale will actually be held, and to ask what redemption would cost.