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Paying Your
Taxes 
PAYING
YOUR TAXES ONLINE
Before
paying your taxes online, please read the following information
Your personal information
is protected . . .
Island County takes your
privacy very seriously and protects your transactions via a number
of security measures including VeriSign, a Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
software, which encrypts your information so it can be securely sent
across the internet.
Payment information
. . .
Online payment is available
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American
Express and E-check (electronic personal check) are accepted.
At the end of your transaction, you will be provided immediate payment
confirmation and a receipt that you should print for your records.
Each transaction will be charged
a convenience fee for this service. RCW 36.29.190
requires that the payer, not the county, bear the cost of processing
online property tax payments. Island County DOES NOT
receive any of the transaction fees charged. If you do
not wish to pay the fee, you will be provided the opportunity to
opt out or cancel your transaction before finalizing. This
service is ONLY available online. We cannot accept credit
cards or E-Checks in the Treasurer's office.
The convenience fee for
this service is: Credit Cards: 2.5% of the
tax amount for all credit cards. E-Check: $2.00
per tax payment less than or equal to $10,000. For each
tax payment greater than $10,000, there is a $15.00 transaction
fee.
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Web browser
must support 128-bit encryption to process your payment in the secure
site.
Internet checks (E-checks)
are an electronic version of a physical check. When you make
your online tax payment with an E-check, you authorize the bank to
electronically withdraw funds from your account for the amount of
your tax payment plus the transaction fee described above.
We DO NOT ACCEPT the following
types of checks for online payments:
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Real
Estate Line of Credit (RELOC) checks.
- Convenience checks drawn on credit card accounts.
- Home equity line of credit checks.
- Travelers checks and Money Orders
- Cashiers Checks and treasurers checks
We do accept Credit Cards
and Personal Checks.
Incorrect payment amounts
will not be processed.
To proceed to pay your taxes
online, click one of the following links
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