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<br />TAXING DISTRICT LEVY LOCAL TAX
<br />County Flood Control Zone District
<br />Flood Control Regular Levy 0.070054 $405,072.83
<br />County Road
<br />Road District #1 0.896227 $3,695,186.19
<br />Co. Road Diverted
<br />(RCW 36.33.220)
<br />0.048509 $200,004.89
<br />Total County Road Taxes 0.944736 $3,895,191.08
<br />Source: Kittitas County 2014
<br />*Levy = dollars per thousand dollars of valuation
<br />Yakima County Property Valuation and Taxation
<br />Yakima County is the state's second largest county in land area, but in excess of 70 percent of the county
<br />land is within the JBLM YTC, BLM, or the Yakama Indian Reservation and, therefore, not subject to ad
<br />valorem taxation.
<br />Ad valorem tax rates generally remained consistent between 2013 and 2014, with most taxing districts
<br />increasing their tax amounts by the one percent limit on the legally allowed increase from the previous
<br />highest levy. The 2014 total county assessment subject to property taxes was $15,024,702,587 (Yakima
<br />County 2014a).
<br />There are 116 Tax Code Areas in the county, including the state school levy and 14 cities (no Action
<br />Alternatives are located within cities). County-wide tax rates set in 2014 for taxes paid in 2015 are shown
<br />in Table 3.9-12.
<br />Table 3.9-12 Yakima County-Wide Property Tax Rates for Taxes Payable 2015
<br />TAXING DISTRICT RATE
<br />County emergency medical services 0.24814391
<br />County flood control 0.09024832
<br />State school levy 2.26449492
<br />Yakima County 1.70037791
<br />Yakima County road 1.78238240
<br />Yakima school bonds 1.68345866
<br />Yakima school maintenance & operation 3.11543959
<br />Yakima Valley regional library 0.47615861
<br />Average county-wide rate* 11.61015177
<br />Source: Yakima County 2014b
<br />Rate = dollars per thousand dollars of valuation
<br />*Average county-wide rate is an average of the total levy rates across all Tax Code Areas including appropriate school and fire districts
<br />Yakima County property tax levies as reported by the County Treasurer (Yakima County 2014b) have
<br />increased gradually over the past three years. These levies are shown in Table 3.9-13. Property taxes are
<br />also collected by such entities as individual school districts, port districts, fire districts, special taxing
<br />districts (irrigation, conservation, mosquito, diking, drainage, weed, stormwater, horticulture, State Game,
<br />and State Forest Patrol Assessments), depending on the location of the subject property.
<br />Table 3.9-13 Yakima County Property Tax Levies
<br />ENTITIES 2012 2013 2014
<br />State School $35,071,913 $37,153,009 $39,047691
<br />Local School $63,513,155 $64,511,047 $65,200,397
<br />Yakima County $23,257,240 $26,012,213 $26,532,614
<br />County Road $13,021,298 $10,280,230 $10,566,421
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