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Budget committee unanimously recommends cancelling $3.1M in uncollectible personal property taxes
Summary
The Budget and Fiscal Management Committee gave a unanimous due‑pass recommendation to an ordinance that would cancel uncollectible personal property tax accounts from 2016–2024 after treasury staff exhausted collection efforts; the committee approved an amendment updating the affidavit year.
At its Feb. 26 meeting, the Metropolitan King County Council Budget and Fiscal Management Committee voted unanimously to give a due‑pass recommendation to a proposed ordinance that would cancel uncollectible personal property taxes for tax years 2016 through 2024.
April Sanders, council policy staff, told the committee that the manager of treasury operations requested authority to remove 796 uncollectible personal property tax accounts from the tax rolls after due diligence efforts to collect were exhausted. The ordinance would authorize up to $3.1 million in cancellations; the one‑time potential revenue loss to the county was described as about $596,000 to the county general fund with the remainder affecting other taxing districts that the county collects taxes for.
Committeemembers approved Amendment 1 — which replaced an inadvertently transmitted 2023 affidavit with the correct 2024 affidavit attachment — before taking the underlying ordinance. Councilmember Joe Barone moved the ordinance and the amendment. The clerk called the roll and the committee recorded seven ayes and zero noes; Chair Rod Dembowski announced the committee would advance the ordinance to the full council on consent with a unanimous due‑pass recommendation.
Ending: The ordinance will proceed to the full council on consent for final action; the cancellation does not waive the county's ability to collect in the future if circumstances change.
