File #: 2024-0025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/13/2024 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/26/2024
Enactment date: 4/3/2024 Enactment #: 19747
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the manager of treasury operations of King County to cancel the attached list of uncollectible personal property taxes in the amount of $1,455,288 for the years 2015 through 2023.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: King County, personal property, Taxes, treasury
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19747, 2. A. 2023 Write-off List, 3. B. 2023 Personal Property Write-off Report for Accounts in Excess of $5,000, 4. C. Affidavit, 5. 2024-0025 transmittal letter, 6. 2024-0025 Fiscal Note, 7. 2024-0025 Legislative Review Form, 8. 2024-0025_SR_UncollectiblePersonalPropTaxes
Staff: Paribello, Brandi

Drafter

Clerk 01/24/2024

Title

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the manager of treasury operations of King County to cancel the attached list of uncollectible personal property taxes in the amount of $1,455,288 for the years 2015 through 2023.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  The duly appointed manager of treasury operations of King County, Washington, has made an affidavit pursuant to the terms of RCW 84.56.240 and 84.56.260 to the King County council relating to the manager's or staff's diligent search and inquiry for goods and chattels of the persons appearing on the list of delinquent taxpayers and the manager's or staff's inability to find any such property from which the taxes could be collected.

2.  The duly appointed manager of treasury operations of King County, Washington, has requested that the King County council cancel the taxes consistent with RCW 84.56.240.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The taxes in the amount of $1,455,288 as indicated in Attachments A, B and C to this ordinance, from the records of treasury operations for the years 2015 through 2023, shall be cancelled, but the obligation to King County is not forgiven.  The

manager of treasury operations of King County is hereby authorized to cancel the taxes on the tax rolls.