Translate
Auditor's Office
What brings you here?
For the following services, use the links below:
- Citizen complaints - Ombudsman's Office
- Birth and death certificates - Public Health
- Building permits - Department of Local Services
- Marriage licensing and marriage records - Recorder
- Mobile and floating homes - Assessor
- Property records, deeds, and liens - Recorder
- Property values - Assessor
- Property taxes - Treasury Operations
- Property tax emption and deferral applications - Assessor
- Process server applications - Customer Service Center
- Process service (service of legal documents) - Customer Service Center
- Vehicle and vessel licensing - Licensing
- Voter registration and elections inquiries - Elections
- Will repository - Superior Court Clerk
The King County Auditor's Office does not handle issues or questions relating to the above services. Auditor's offices in other counties are sometimes responsible for functions that are handled by separate agencies in King County (why this is). Please see the pages above, or the Customer Service Center website, regarding any of these services — or learn more about the Auditor's Office.
Vanpool: Improved Monitoring Could Help Achieve Strategic Goals and Reduce Program Risk | Jun 11, 2024
Zero Emissions: Metro Transit Working to Mitigate Risks to County’s Ambitious 2035 Goal | Jun 11, 2024
Recorder’s Office: Better Financial Oversight Will Reduce Risk | May 14, 2024
Upcoming briefings and publications
Nothing upcoming
View King County Council's meetings calendar and agendas and live stream.
Audits and oversight in progress
The 2023-2024 work program outlines work to be initiated in this biennium. Have ideas for future audits? Submit your ideas via our community input form.
The following projects are underway:
- Space Planning
- Harborview Project Oversight
- Civil Forfeiture
- Jail Behavioral Health
-
Customer Service
-
Cyber Resilience, part II
-
Returned Checks
News
Auditor’s Office Wins National Award for Audit of Property Tax Exemptions
The Association of Local Government Auditors' Awards Program Committee announced that the King County Auditor's Office report, “Property Tax Exemptions: Stronger Systems Needed to Meet Demand,” won the 2022 Distinguished Knighton Award in the large shop category, calling it one of the best reports of 2022. They noted that it was a relevant subject that could have significant impact on some of the most vulnerable residents of the community. They said the King County Auditor’s Office made specific, feasible, and actionable recommendations for improvement and the effective use and placement of visuals conveyed the message and enhanced the report’s readability. Rather than simply narrating a story, the auditor effectively used charts and graphs to demonstrate changes in workloads and backlogs to correlate the impacts on wait times for property tax exemption approvals.