ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – St. Louis County Executive Sam Page shared an important warning about next year’s property tax freeze for seniors.

“We strongly discourage anyone from participating in any public senior tax freeze events that isn’t approved by St. Louis County,” Page said.

The county executive says his office has been made aware of unapproved sign-up events to help with the senior tax freeze program application.

The St. Louis County Police Department is also cautioning about sign-up events not sponsored by the county government.

“We don’t have any indication that anything untoward is happening,” Page said. “But when you start to hear of these events, we want to stop them for now until we can set up guidelines and procedures and talk more about that at the first of the year.”

Page is concerned these events that haven’t been approved by the county may compromise the safety and security of seniors’ personal data or lead to inaccurate or incomplete information.

“It’s been a topic of collectors across the state for a year and a half after legislation was passed at the state level about how to go about rolling this out,” St. Louis County Director of Revenue Tony Smee said. “It’s still very contentious, even today. And still only a handful of counties have enacted it.

“We really had the luxury of watching St. Charles County. They’re a neighbor and very friendly with us. They’ve shared some of the issues they had rolling out. We had the luxury of seeing some of those things play out before we roll out our final process here.”

Since the program opened October 1, they’ve had 25,000 applications so far.

Seniors can go to www.stlouiscountymo.gov and click on the property tax freeze button to begin the process online and make an appointment.

Homeowners can also sign up for property fraud alerts. If anyone is trying to file any records on your property, you’ll receive an alert from St. Louis County.

The St. Louis County senior tax freeze application window in the county does not close until June 2025.