Instead of keeping the $15,000 it was owed and refunding the sale surplus, the county pocketed all of the $40,000. ![]() ![]() The County seized the condo and sold it one year later for $40,000. By the time penalties and interest were added in over a couple of years, she owed $15,000 to Hennepin County, Minnesota. Tyler accrued $2,300 in back taxes on her one bedroom condo in Minneapolis. But some states, like Minnesota, go a step further: keeping all the money from the sale, even if it is far more than the back taxes due. ![]() NTUF’s Taxpayer Defense Center, along with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, filed an amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief to argue that the Supreme Court should hold that a government tax sale that confiscates the entire value of someone’s house is an “excessive fine” in violation of the Constitution.įorced tax sales are an all-too-common occurrence and are always the result of sad factors leading to someone losing their home because they didn’t pay all their property taxes.
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