King County - File #: 2007-0294

• File #: 2007-0294
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/7/2007
• In control: General Government and Labor Relations Committee
• Final action: 7/9/2007
• Enactment date: 7/18/2007
• Enactment #: 15865
• Title: AN ORDINANCE requiring the mailing of a notice concerning real estate taxes to all taxpayers whose lender has requested and received the tax information for the taxpayer's property; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 4.
• Sponsors: Reagan Dunn, Larry Phillips, Kathy Lambert, Jane Hague, Julia Patterson, Dow Constantine, Bob Ferguson
• Indexes: Taxes
• Staff: Giambattista, Jenny

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/9/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
7/9/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
6/26/2007	2	General Government and Labor Relations Committee	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
6/12/2007	1	General Government and Labor Relations Committee	Deferred
5/7/2007	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

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Clerk 7/2/2007
Title
AN ORDINANCE requiring the mailing of a notice concerning real estate taxes to all taxpayers whose lender has requested and received the tax information for the taxpayer's property; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 4.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County is a regional government providing a broad array of basic services to approximately one million eight hundred thousand residents of King County.
2. King County is also the local government for nearly three hundred fifty thousand residents living in unincorporated King County outside city boundaries.
3. A large source of the revenue necessary to both the regional and local services is property tax.
4. The manager of the treasury operations section of the finance and business operations division mails to the taxpayer listed on the tax roll an annual real estate tax statement for each tax parcel, except no tax statement is sent to a taxpayer whose lender has requested and is sent the tax information for that parcel.
5. The King County council believes it is in the best interest of the county to provide the information contained in the tax statement to taxpayers who receive no real estate tax statement because their lender requests and is sent the tax information concerning their property.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Sections 2 through 6 of this ordinance should constitute a new chapter in K.C.C. Title 4.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 2. A. RCW 84.56.050 requires the county treasurer to notify each taxpayer of the amount of the real and personal property, the current and delinquent amount of tax due on the real and personal property and to print on the notice the name of each tax and the levy included in the statement.
B. It is the intent of the council that all taxpayers, as listed on the tax roll, with a designated mortgage lender, be sent an annual written notice concerning the real estate taxes, fees and charges owed on their...