The IRS has announced a set of new policies designed to help taxpayers pay their back taxes and avoid liens (IR-2011-20). The changes to the IRS’ lien filing practices include: The IRS also announced ...

If you’re a business owner and you fail to pay taxes, the government could slap your business with a tax lien. That’s a document filed by the Internal Revenue Service placing a legal claim against ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched ...

In the guest column “Tax lien sales are inefficient, unjust” (Sept. 18th, Poughkeepsie Journal,) the writer suggests that the City of Poughkeepsie's method of enforcing delinquent taxes is unjust and ...

A tax lien on this duplex in Quincy was sold three years ago by the city for $37,483 to a third-party investor that later foreclosed on the owner and moved to evict tenants living there. The property ...

Georgia homeowners who fall behind on their property taxes now have a new protection. No longer can cunning investors quickly snatch away their homes and everything the owners had paid on it. For ...