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Mount Vernon officials discuss list of delinquent taxes, payment plans and tax-lien sale options
Summary
City leaders discussed publishing a list of delinquent taxes and possible tax-lien sale or in rem foreclosure steps, emphasizing payment-plan options and the potential neighborhood impacts of wholesale tax-lien or foreclosure actions.
City of Mount Vernon officials discussed procedures for publishing the list of delinquent taxes and options that follow — including payment plans, tax-lien sales and in rem foreclosure proceedings — during the Jan. 28 Board of Estimate and Contract meeting.
Mayor Deirdre Patterson Howard told the board that publishing the list of delinquent taxes is a required legal step that gives property owners opportunities to respond, and she urged caution in choosing remedies. “Tax liens are not equivalent to foreclosures,” she said in explaining the sequence: publication of the delinquent-tax list is the first formal step and does not immediately trigger foreclosure.
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