El Paso County tax mailing addresses start with the Assessor

When a property-tax statement lands at an old address, most people reach for the Treasurer, since that is the office that collects the money. The fix actually lives one door over. The Assessor keeps the mailing addresses used to send out property-tax notifications, and that record is where a correction has to begin.

Change the address with the Assessor and it flows downstream on its own. The Treasurer’s office picks up the updated address from there, so a single correction in the right place fixes both the statement and the notices that follow it.

This comes up more often than you would think: after a move across town, after selling one home and buying another, when an estate changes hands and the mail is still routed to someone who has passed, or during any stretch when forwarding has gone sideways. The risk is a quiet one, which is what makes it easy to ignore. A statement that never reaches you does not erase the tax owed, and a bill you never see can slide into delinquency while you assume everything is paid and fine.

So when the address on a property record is wrong, route the change through the Assessor’s address-update path. Once that is set, the Treasurer’s site is the place to confirm the statement and sort out any payment questions.