Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits
The currently linked article is incredibly inciteful, which is to be expected of Reason whenever they cover tax and property issues.<p>Another way to state one of the facts in this case is that the state seized the property of an owner who was delinquent on his tax bill for over 5 years and well aware of it. Once it&#x27;s the state&#x27;s property I don&#x27;t see why they should pay the &quot;profits&quot; back to him or any other prior owner. At that point, the state and the collective taxpayers are already the owners and the money enters the collective fund.<p>By giving away the profit to a previous owner, the argument presented is effectively that the State should be a taxpayer-funded seller&#x27;s agent that works exclusively in the property owner&#x27;s favor rather than working in favor of the taxpayers who actually pay their fair share.