What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tax Clerk I - G115 Tax Commissioner's Office position at Columbus Consolidated Government?
This position performs clerical and customer service duties in support of office operations.
- Collects title Ad Valorem tax on title-required vehicles; processes refund requests; prepares motor vehicle, property tax, and accounting reports.
- Assists the general public with questions or concerns; refers individuals to appropriate personnel.
- Maintains office inventory.
- Issues and renews tags and titles; processes property tax payments; issues decals for mobile homes and Disabled Person parking placards.
- Interprets state and local policies, procedures, and laws related to motor vehicles and property taxes.
- Enters and retrieves information from Ias World and DRIVES computer systems.
- Operates a multi-line phone system.
- Mail property tax bills, delinquent notices, and mobile home bills.
- Opens, processes, and distributes mail.
- Verifies and processes applications for homestead exemptions; processes ‘over 65’ and disabled veteran exemptions; conducts year-round homestead exemption audits.
- Examines insurance relief documents for accuracy; removes insurance lapses and suspension penalties.
- Prepares daily reports; verifies check totals and currency.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Knowledge of Georgia Registration and Titling Information Services procedures.
- Knowledge of relevant state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances, and departmental policy including sales tax codes and exemptions, use tax, and similar regulations.
- Knowledge of the principles of records management.
- Knowledge of standard business arithmetic.
- Skill in problem-solving and decision-making.
- Skill in the provision of customer services.
- Skill in operating standard office equipment, computers, and related computer software programs.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Ability to work independently and with minimum supervision.
The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table or while intermittently sitting, standing, bending, crouching, or stooping. The employee frequently lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color.
- Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Standing – for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
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