The County Auditor's position was changed in January 2022 from a 4-year elected term to a position appointed by the County Board of Commissioners.

Accounting

Both the Auditor's Office and Treasurer's Office maintain financial records for the county. These duties include periodic financial reports and the annual financial statement for the county.

Ditches

The Auditor's Office is the keeper of the financial records for each drainage system and is responsible for filing ditch liens and assessments for maintenance: and maintains the historical records of ditch proceedings. To view more about ditches Click Here.

Elections

The Auditor serves as the chief election officer of the county. In this capacity, the Auditor is responsible for training election judges and officials, printing ballots, registering voters, absentee ballot administration, filing certain candidates, and providing ballots and election supplies to the 30 voting precincts of the county. The Auditor's Office also maintains current voter information for the county on the Statewide Voter Registration System.  See Quick Links on right side of screen.

 "Who Represents me?" is a search tool that can provide quick clarification for anyone who has questions regarding Minnesota legislative representation.  

Licensing

The Auditor's Office provides license service for retail sales of beer, liquor, and tobacco. Other licenses include auctioneer, public fireworks display and transient merchant.

Parcel Ownership
The Auditor's Office maintains up-to-date records of the ownership, taxpayer addresses, and property legal descriptions on each parcel of land in the county. Daily changes are made involving transfers, sales, splits, mortgages, etc. The property tax link below is updated daily to show the most recent payment information, and annually in March to show ownership and parcel specific legal descriptions.

Taxes

The Auditor calculates the tax capacity rates on which all taxes are levied, and computes taxes on each of the approximately 18,000 parcels of land for real and personal property. These taxes are based on the budgets of the county, townships, cities, school districts, and special taxing districts. Special assessments for cities, county and townships, as certified, are calculated and assigned to the proper parcel for collection and then remitted to the taxing districts. 

Taxes Payable 2023 Initial Rates.

The office maintains the status of delinquent tax records, applying late penalties, fees and interest, and mails and publishes notices as required by State of Minnesota Statutes.  To obtain your payment status you can access that information by clicking on Tax Payment Status.

Truth in Taxation

Proposed property tax notices are mailed annually in Mid-November. In addition to the proposed tax information, taxpayers will be provided with the certified levy for the current tax’s payable year, the proposed levy for the following year, and the increase or decrease expressed as a percentage. For more information click here.