ECHECKS: Still more questions
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 11 years, 3 months AGO
I really appreciate Kootenai County Treasurer Malzahn’s response to my echeck convenience fee letter to the editor. Could Treasurer Malzahn answer these questions:
Why did the treasurer lump credit/debit card merchant fees that every county government out there charges for with echeck fees that far fewer governments charge for in his response?
Why have hundreds of much larger counties been able to negotiate labor saving fee free echecks for tax payments with third party banking service providers and Kootenai County hasn’t? Are we too small?
Electronic bill pay and email has decimated paper wasting snail mail. Why are governments still encouraging paper wasting snail mail tax bill payments?
The convenience fee, (or is it another tax by supreme court definition?) is low now. But fees (and taxes) go up.
MIKE RENO
Post Falls