WE had an issue over property taxes one year. They payment never got recorded.
Fortunately, I paid by check at the village office and got the stamped tax receipt, both of which I filed.
Then when the county tried to tell me we owed and had to pay or else our property would go up for public auction, (and it hadn’t even been a year) I got out both receipts and showed them. Fortunately, that worked.
Just be glad you don’t live in Chicago..............It wouldn’t work there!............