File #: 2025-0055    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: In Committee
File created: 2/11/2025 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
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 $3,136,926 for the years 2016 through 2024.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski
Indexes: King County, personal property, Taxes, treasury
Attachments: 1. A. 2024 Write-off List, 2. B. 2024 Personal Property Write-off Report for Accounts in Excess of $5,000, 3. C. Affidavit, 4. 2025-0055 Transmittal Letter, 5. Attachment B. 2024 Personal Property Write-off Report for Accounts in Excess of $5,000, 6. 2025-0055 Fiscal Note- 2024 Property Tax Write Off Report, 7. 2025-0055 Legislative Review, 8. 2025-0055_SR_UncollectiblePersonalPropTaxes, 9. 2025-0055_ATT2_Amd1_correctattachmentc bar, 10. 2025-0055_ATT2A_Amd1_Attachment C. 2024 Affidavit
Staff: Sanders, April

Drafter

Clerk 02/04/2025

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 $3,136,926 for the years 2016 through 2024.

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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 $3,136,926, as indicated in Attachments A, B, and C to this ordinance, from the records of treasury operations for the years 2016 through 2024, shall be canceled, 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.