Two years. Properties with delinquent taxes get a two year non-payment and they go on the block at the end of the second year. Even then only one year has to be paid to become current.
What a lot of people do is pay off the taxes with no intention of taking possession of the property. The delinquent owner has six months (not a year) to redeem the property for the delinquent taxes paid plus 1 1/2% a month interest. The people who bought at the tax sale are doing some entrepreneurial investing.
I used to work with someone who would do this. They said that you always have to be ready to take possession of the property in case you really do end up owning it.
But the County takes properties to tax sale after two years of arrears. Possibly it may be unpaid assessments (like for trash, maybe sewer) or unpaid STD charges. Or it could be something else for which the property was collateral/surety.
The County/Town takes possession.
The County steals the property from the owner, by force, if necessary, using the hired guns from the Sheriff's Office.
That doesn't happen if you pay your ****ing taxes. No different than not paying your mortgage.
Forced to pay a tribute, "taxes", yearly on one's home, abode, residence, dwelling, is extortion, at the hands of the criminal syndicate called government. There is a huge overwhelming difference between paying a mortgage and home property taxes. A mortgage is entered into freely and with consent. Property taxes are forced, exacted, coerced, and imposed upon home owners from an entity using extortive means.
How then, under your Sovereign Citizen doctrine, do you propose to pay for services you benefit from? User fees like a toll every time you get on the road? Give the fire department your AMEX number so they'll put the fire in your basement out?
You rebel, you. So...since you obviously refuse to pay taxes, how's your defense of your property panning out?
I seem to remember reading that MD still does that. A symbolic payment to the Crown annually.
"Maybe you could pay your property taxes with tobacco as was done 300 years ago in the Province of Maryland." You mean when Maryland was still a colony, and under the rule of a king?
I wrote that on the front of my last 1040 and didn't send them a dime. Got a nice little note back: "OK..you win. We're sorry".
Yeah, you do talk Sovereign Citizen BS all the time. About property tax is one such time. Taxes on property, of all types, goes back thousands of years.
You must be confusing me with someone else. I've never talked about being a "Sovereign Citizen". Being free to exercise my, (and you exercising your), rights, freedoms and liberties, as guaranteed in the US Constitution, and as enunciated The Declaration of Independence, sure.
Didn't know you paid real estate property taxes to the IRS.
