Hardship Payment Form: Durham County Tax Payment Request

The Hardship Payment Form, titled Hardship Payment Arrangement Request on the page itself, is the Durham County Tax Office form a taxpayer completes to request a payment arrangement for delinquent taxes because of hardship circumstances.

The form states what an approved arrangement is for: it is structured to ensure proper payment of the delinquent taxes and to avoid enforced collection procedures. It also warns that an initial monthly payment may be required for approval.

The request has a taxpayer block with the taxpayer's name, phone numbers, present address and employer, a matching block for a spouse, the account number(s) or property address(es) the taxpayer wants included, and a short statement of the reason for the request after the taxes became delinquent. Taxpayer and spouse each sign and date it.

Durham County lists the form under Other Forms in its Tax Forms & Publications library, where it appears next to a Spanish version, Hardship Payment Arrangement Spanish, and next to separate documents such as the Tax Payment Help Application and the Tax Help Program Application. This page covers only the Hardship Payment Form.

Taxpayers whose taxes in Durham County have become delinquent and who want to ask the Durham County Tax Office for a payment arrangement because of hardship circumstances complete this form. The request asks for the reason the taxes became delinquent, so it is meant for people who can explain a hardship.

• Taxpayer: enters name (include Jr. or Sr. if applicable), home and cell phone, present address, employer, and position, title or type of business.
• Spouse: the form has a parallel column for a spouse's name, phones and employer, and a separate spouse signature and date line.
• Accounts covered: the taxpayer lists the account number(s) or property address(es) to be included in the arrangement.

The form does not describe who may sign on someone else's behalf or give any income or eligibility test. Approval is not automatic: the form says "if approved", and an initial monthly payment may be required. For questions about eligibility, contact the Tax Office at the phone number printed on the form.

Use the form after your taxes have become delinquent and you want an arrangement instead of enforced collection. The form prints no filing deadline, so the practical timing rule comes from its own warnings: interest continues to accrue until the taxes are paid in full, and if the arrangement is not completed by the final payment date, you are subject to all enforced collection procedures.

If the current year taxes are not paid in full, the form says your name will be listed in the local newspapers on the date all delinquent real estate tax liens are advertised. Because of these consequences, request the arrangement before that advertising date and ask the Tax Office how long an approval takes; the form states no processing time.

The form does not print a separate return channel; its header gives the Durham County Tax Office's mailing address and phone number, so confirm with the office how it wants the request delivered.

• Mailing address printed on the form: PO Box 3397, Durham, North Carolina, 27702.
• Phone printed on the form: (919) 560-0300.
• Main Office listed on the county's Tax Forms & Publications page: 201 East Main Street, 3rd Floor, Administration Bldg. II, Durham, NC 27701; phone 919-560-0350; hours 8:30 AM-5:00 PM.

Sign and date the request before you send it; the taxpayer signs on the Taxpayer signature line and a spouse on the Spouse Signature line. The form says an initial monthly payment may be required for approval, so ask the office how and where to make it; the form gives no payment amount or method. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the Tax Office's channels above.