File #: 2017-0486    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 1/8/2018 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Reconciliation
On agenda: Final action: 2/5/2018
Enactment date: Enactment #: 15063
Title: A MOTION authorizing the manager of treasury operations of King County to cancel the attached list of uncollectible personal property taxes in the amount of $664,752.04 for the years 2009 through 2016.
Sponsors: Dave Upthegrove
Indexes: Property Tax
Attachments: 1. Motion 15063.pdf, 2. A. 2016 Write-Off List, 3. B. 2016 Personal Property Write Off Report - Accounts in Excess of $5,000 - RCW 84.56.240, 4. C. Affidavit - Soctt Matheson, Manager, Treasury Operations, 5. 2017-0486 legislative review form.pdf, 6. 2017-0486 transmittal letter.docx, 7. 2017-0486 fiscal note.xls, 8. 2017-0486_Uncollectible Taxes_SR_Borders.docx, 9. 2017-0486_Uncollectible Taxes_SR_dated_01242018_Borders.docx
Staff: Borders, Renita

Drafter

Clerk 11/09/2017

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A MOTION authorizing the manager of treasury operations of King County to cancel the attached list of uncollectible personal property taxes in the amount of $664,752.04 for the years 2009 through 2016.

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                     WHEREAS, 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 the manager's diligent search and inquiry for goods and chattels of the persons appearing on the list of delinquent taxpayers and the manager's inability to find any such property from which the taxes could be collected, and

                     WHEREAS, 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;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     The taxes in the amount of $664,752.04, as indicated in Attachments A, B and C to this motion, from the records of treasury operations for the years 2009 through 2016, 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.