How to check if property taxes are paid on a property in Kauai County, HI
Property tax bills and delinquencies in Kauai County are with the Kauai County Real Property Assessment Division. In Kauai County the HeritageDeed report does not search delinquent taxes, so check that office directly.
Search a Kauai County property, $49
Step by step in Kauai County
- 1
Look up the tax account
Find the parcel in the Kauai County Real Property Assessment Division records and its tax bill for the current and past years.
- 2
Check for delinquency
Unpaid taxes become a lien on the property and can lead to a tax sale; check whether any year is delinquent.
What Kauai County records show
Hawaii records land documents statewide at the Bureau of Conveyances, a division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, rather than in each county. Every parcel is identified by its tax map key (TMK): the island division, zone, section, plat and parcel.
Kauai County property tax in numbers
The median owner-occupied home in Kauai County pays $1,866 a year, an effective rate of 0.21%, ranked 3 of 4 in Hawaii. Kauai County property tax rate.
What the report checks in Kauai County
- The parcel's tax map key and location from the statewide parcel records, and the owner of record from the latest title-transferring document in the Bureau's index
Not covered here
- A condominium unit is searched by its fee parcel's tax map key and the owner's name; documents registered only under the unit's own key are not read.
- Loans of earlier owners are not searched under the seller's name, and delinquent property taxes are not searched.
Questions
What does a HeritageDeed search in Kauai County not cover?
The Bureau's online index covers documents recorded from 1976; earlier instruments are not searched.
Is this title insurance?
No. It is a search of the public record for one Kauai County property. A lender closing a loan will still require a title insurance commitment from a licensed insurer.
More about Kauai County property records
- Check for liens
- Find the owner
- Search deeds
- Check for a loan
- Title search cost
- Kauai County title search guide
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