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Committee oks restriction on non-U.S. domiciliaries and authorizes online post-auction sales
Summary
The Senate Revenue & Tax Committee voted to pass HB1229, which renames three sale types administered by the Commissioner of State Lands, bars purchasers domiciled outside the United States from buying tax-delinquent land, and allows online post-auction and negotiated sales while preserving an initial county auction requirement.
The Senate Revenue & Tax Committee voted to pass HB1229, a bill to revise how tax-delinquent property is sold and to bar purchases by people domiciled outside the United States.
Kelly Boyd, chief deputy commissioner of state lands, told the committee the bill clarifies three sale categories: the initial physical county auction for tax-delinquent property; a post-auction sale for parcels that did not sell at the physical auction (occurring up to two years afterward); and a negotiated sale for unsold parcels after two years. Boyd said the measure would allow the post-auction and negotiated sales to be conducted online while…
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