• Owner and Taxpayer Name/Address Changes After a Sale
• Assessor's Office, Real and Personal Property, and Updates
• Assessed Values
• Mapping questions
• Other Questions, Contacts, and More Information
• Taxes and Tax Relief Programs

Please scroll down to see what questions each of the above topics will answer.

• tax payments
• due dates
• delinquent taxes
• receipt of payments
• duplicate tax statements
• bankruptcy
• excise taxes
• foreclosure or personal property distraint
• mobile home moving permits
• name/address changes
• other questions regarding the payment of taxes

• I purchased this property within the past few months and the taxpayer name has been updated to reflect I am the new taxpayer of record, but the owner's name still shows the old owner.  Why?

• What does the County Assessor do?
• What is personal property?
• How often does the Snohomish County Assessor value personal property?
• What is real property?
• How often does the Snohomish County Assessor re-inspect and appraise real property for tax purposes?
• When did the Assessor's office change to an annual reval?
• Why is the Assessor's office changing to an annual reval?

• What laws affect how the Assessor appraises my property?
• What is market value?
• Can I appeal my new assessed value?

• How do the taxing districts set the tax amount?
• What is a Tax Code Area (TCA) ?
• What is the statutory rate limit?
• What is the $5.90 limit ?
• What is the 1% Constitutional limit?
• What is Initiative 747?

• I can't find my parcel number when I put in the address. How come?
• I put an address into one of the many online mapping services. It found a location for the address, but when I search your system or use your map it can’t find the address. Why not?
• Do your parcel maps show my legal property ownership?
• How accurate are your maps?
• When I look at the aerial photograph of my property on your map it looks like my neighbor is on my property. Is this correct?
  If the maps and aerial photographs are not accurate enough to determine property boundaries, why do you allow them to be shown together?
• When I look at the aerial photograph of my property on your map, my property lines to not match up with the fence lines that can be seen on the photograph. Will you correct your map so that they match?
• Can you give me the GPS coordinates for my property corners?
• Can you give me the exact dimensions of my property?
• I measured from the painted stripe on the road and it looks like the road/my neighbor is on my property. What do I do?
• My neighbor has put up a fence that I think is on my property. What can you do to help me?
• I am in a dispute with my neighbor regarding our property line. Can you tell me an attorney or surveyor to contact?

• I recently short platted or divided my property. How do I get a new tax parcel number?
• I just purchased a lot in a new formal plat/subdivision. When will my new tax parcel number be assigned?
• Whom should I contact to correct my mailing address for my tax statement and/or Change of Value notice?
• Whom should I contact for more information?

• Why do we have property tax?
• If assessed value increases, do taxes have to increase?
• If assessed values decrease, do property taxes automatically decrease?
  Can I appeal the amount of taxes I will pay or the percentage that my assessment increased?
• What tax relief programs are available?
• What tax relief programs are available for senior citizens or disabled persons?
• I have a senior citizen or disabled person exemption and my taxable value is "frozen", will the new assessment affect my taxes?
• Is it possible to make a "ballpark estimate" of how much the taxes will be on a piece of property that I am thinking about buying (or a structure that I might build)?

• Assessed value of property
• Open space programs
• Levy rates and tax levy limitations
• Appeals for lowering assessed values
• Tax relief programs: senior citizens and/or disabled exemptions
• Building and property characteristics