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tax sale

noun

  1. the sale of real property, as land, usually at auction by a public authority, in order to pay delinquent taxes assessed upon its owner.


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Origin of tax sale1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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His mother paid $10 — about $100 today — for the lot on Shore Drive at a tax sale in the early 1960s.

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Last year, Scott removed more than 970 owner-occupied homes from the tax sale list.

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Scott tripled that number last week, saying the city would remove all owner-occupied homes, roughly 2,900, from the tax sale list, calling it a “very personal” decision.

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When the city released its preliminary tax sale list earlier this year, there were over 4,150 owner-occupied properties on it.

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Advocates had called on the mayor to cancel the tax sale because an unprecedented amount of federal money, $250 million in the Maryland Homeowner Assistance Fund, can help Maryland residents get caught up on their unpaid bills.

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