Update May 29th, 2023
The Supreme Court has issued a ruling. As discussed in a recent article from Route Fifty that even though the Court ruled against cities and counties, “local officials nationwide are breathing a sigh of relief that the court didn’t go further.”
To view the ruling, please click here.
To view the article from Route Fifty, please click here.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the “constitutionality of letting states keep all the proceeds of the sale of confiscated property even when they far exceed the taxpayer’s debt.”
According to the New York Times “The Supreme Court seemed united ….., in its distaste for how county officials in Minnesota had treated a 94-year-old woman who had stopped paying property taxes on her condominium after moving into an assisted-living center.”
For more information, please click on the following links:
Reuters: US Supreme Court mulls legality of a state’s property tax ‘windfall’
New York Times: Supreme Court Wary of Windfall in Seizure of Condo for Unpaid Taxes