Lauderdale County collected more than $21 million in personal property taxes in fiscal year 2017.

As of Sept. 30, the county collected a total of $21,660,850 in personal property taxes, according to Lauderdale County Tax Collector Doris Spidle.

Spidle said 239 businesses were delinquent in 2017, bringing the total of unpaid personal property taxes to $128,295.24.

“My office will file a lien against these that are unpaid,” Spidle said. “If they should decide to sell the business, they couldn’t sell it unless they pay these liens.

“Some of these also are businesses that have gone out of business… The thing is, the law states if you are in business on Jan. 1, you are responsible for those taxes even if you go out of business on May 1.”

The county collected about $384,000 in mobile home taxes for 2017, with about $34,000 reported in unpaid taxes on 227 mobile homes, Spidle said.

These mobile homes will go to auction on Oct. 24 at the county’s mobile home sale.

The county also collected $51,753,672 in real property taxes, along with $1,245,706.96 in solid waste fees, $13,430.41 in privilege taxes and $18,663 in aircraft taxes, Spidle said.

In late August, the county sold more than $3 million in its first ever online land sale. There were more than 3,000 properties put up for auction with delinquent taxes from the 2016 tax year, Spidle said.

Spidle said only 47 pieces of land — a total of about $13,000 — were sent to the state. Last year, 526 pieces of land went to the state — a total of about $70,000.