The CTx Organization

Our organization is structured around several standing committees.  Our Education Committee, the largest and most active committee, meets approximately eight times a year and is responsible for planning and organizing the annual three-day continuing education conference. 

Our Legislative Committee works in conjunction with our association's paid legislative liaison to propose legislation and to monitor legislative developments at the state level. 

Our Motor Vehicles Committee meets approximately 3 - 4 times annually to work with representatives from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to address issues relative to the taxation of motor vehicles.  This committee includes members from various automobile trade and leasing associations and broad representation from the DMV. 

Our Escrow Committee meets twice annually, usually in Norwalk, Connecticut, immediately following the semiannual collection cycles.  This committee includes representatives from banks, tax servicing agents, and other third party escrow agents and address problems and issues relative to real estate tax payments made by these parties on behalf of homeowners. 

We work closely with members of the state-appointed Certification Committee, which organizes coursework for the Certified Connecticut Municipal Collector (C.C.M.C.) program.   State certification of tax collectors is not mandatory in Connecticut due to the fact that approximately one third of Connecticut tax collectors are elected, and the state legislature is reluctant to impose certification requirements on elected officials.  However, the Certification program has proven to be very effective and very much in demand, and there are now more than 400 individuals who have successfully completed the program and earned their C.C.M.C. designation since the program's inception some twenty years ago. 

Requirements for certification currently include a two-year experience requirement;  successful completion of four individual courses, each running between six to ten weeks, including a final examination; and successful completion of a comprehensive final written examination administered by the CCMC committee.  The Connecticut legislature recently passed requirements for recertification of tax collectors; more information on these requirements will be posted on this site as soon as it becomes available. 

Our Association is also an affiliate of the Northeast Regional Tax Collectors' and Treasurers' Association, a group that geographically includes the eleven northeastern states from Maine to Maryland, the District of Columbia, and several Canadian provinces.  Members of the Connecticut Tax Collectors' Association, along with colleagues from other member states, were among the founders of the NERTCTA in 1989, and Connecticut tax collectors remain extremely active participants in this regional group today. 

An elected Board of Directors conducts the business affairs of the Connecticut Tax Collectors' Association, Inc.  Members of the Board include the association's seven officers, who are elected to two-year terms by the membership at large;  the immediate past president of the Association; and a representative from each of the seven county tax collectors' associations.  Although Connecticut does not have county government, the counties continue to exist geographically.  Each of the counties has its own tax collectors' association, which run various educational programs and hold quarterly or semiannual meetings of their own.