States › Hawaii › Kauai County

County Building
4444 Rice Street
Lihue, HI 96766-1328
Phone: (808) 241-6371
www.kauai.gov

Auction Type: Tax Deed Redeemable
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If Kauai county, Hawaii is unable to collect real estate property taxes they are also unable to provide important government services like police protection, public schooling and medical services.

Unpaid property taxes create a serious cashflow problem for Kauai county, Hawaii.

Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Kauai county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Kauai county newspaper of general circulation. They are listed by sequence number. Parcels fall into 1 of 2 groups. Each group is sorted by parcel number.

The advertisement appears about three to six weeks before the Kauai county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.

To solve this problem Kauai county, Hawaii allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Kauai county, Hawaii lien for taxes. A tax lien is simply a claim for delinquent taxes.

Why would investors do this?

Well, depending on Hawaii laws and competition, savvy Kauai county tax sale investors can realize high-yielding returns with Hawaii tax lien certificates and/or purchase real estate for a fraction of its true market value with Hawaii tax deeds.

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Bryan Baptiste	Mayor	mayor@kauai.hawaii.gov
William Asing	Council Chair
Jay Furfaro	Council Member	cokcouncil@kauai.gov
Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho	Council Member	cokcouncil@kauai.gov
Daryl Kaneshiro	Council Member	cokcouncil@kauai.gov
Melvin Rapozo	Council Member	cokcouncil@kauai.gov
James Kunane Tokioka	Council Member	cokcouncil@kauai.gov
JoAnn Yukimura	Council Member	cokcouncil@kauai.gov
Michael Soong	Prosecuting Attorney
David Spanski	County Treasurer
Peter Nakamura	County Clerk

Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.

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