Filmore Brown was shocked when his house in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ended up in a foreclosure sale. But it had nearly ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani suspended New York City’s annual tax lien sale, signaling a potential permanent end to the decades-old practice of selling municipal debt to private investors.  The decision ...

A candidate for the Town of Lexington council faced tax liens from state and federal governments in the past. File photo Columbia A Lexington town council candidate has owed nearly $200,000 in unpaid ...

What Is a Tax Lien? A tax lien is a government's legal claim against a noncompliant taxpayer's assets to ensure tax payment. It arises when an individual or business fails to pay owed taxes. The lien ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is freezing tax lien sales as the city conducts a review of claims that the process ...

A tax lien is a legal claim that a local or municipal government places on an individual’s property when the owner has failed to pay a property tax debt. The notice typically comes before harsher ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Stay up to date with all of our election coverage here. Circuit judge candidate Scott Davidson of Batesville owes about $206,180 in unpaid state tax debt, the largest amount owed of ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A tax lien foreclosure is the sale of a property resulting from the property owner's failure ...