Ever heard of tax lien investing and wondered if it’s a smart way to make money? Maybe you’ve seen it mentioned online as a way to earn a passive income or even buy real estate at a big discount — but ...

Normally when you buy a house, you don’t want a home with any outstanding liens against it. That’s also why you pay for a title company. But what happens to those houses with outstanding taxes? You ...

Tax lien investing is a unique investment strategy that involves purchasing delinquent property tax liens on properties. When a property owner fails to pay their property taxes, the local government ...

As you start investing, you may come across one of the lesser-known types of investment that’s rarely mentioned: the tax lien. The simple definition of a tax lien is that it is a legal claim made by a ...

Tax lien investing is a potentially high-yielding — but risky — real estate investment strategy. Investors cover an unpaid property tax bill upfront and are then responsible for collecting from the ...

One troubling aspect of tax practice that CPAs sometimes have to deal with is what to do when the IRS or some other authority attaches a tax lien to a client’s property. The issue is even more complex ...

Back taxes are taxes that have been partially or fully unpaid in the year that they were due. Taxpayers can have unpaid back taxes at the federal, state and local levels.

The city is zeroing in on a plan to reinstate tax lien sales but with more protections so property owners don’t end up in foreclosure. City Council member Justin Brannan plans to introduce a bill ...