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Department of Tax and Collections
Department of Tax and Collections

Department of Tax and Collections (DTAC)

Front view of 110 West Tasman building.

The Department of Tax and Collections is one of three departments in the County’s Finance Agency. The mission of Finance and Government Operations in the County of Santa Clara is to provide responsive and accountable government with demonstrated effectiveness and efficiency while fostering open communication with its residents, and here at DTAC, our main goal is to collect with compassion.

The Department of Tax and Collections was established in July 2017 with the objective to have all collection services centralized within the County of Santa Clara. Prior to 2017, there were three main collection departments. The Office of the Tax Collector, which was responsible for all property tax collections, the Department of Revenue, which handled a variety of court ordered debt, hospital debt, and delinquent debt from various county departments, and the Social Services Agency’s collection unit for public assistance debt, which included over-issuance of financial assistance. These three operations merged to become what is known today as the Department of Tax and Collections. Together we work in collecting over $8.7 billion a year, which help support various County services, programs, schools, and special districts in our community.