Comments on: Google search not enough to locate taxpayer, court says

Pennsylvania county says Google search to locate a man whose property was later sold for back taxes was sufficient. State court disagrees.

[georgescott]

Often cities will ge the whole amount that the property sold for

Oftentimes cities will get the whole amount the property sold for beyond what the back taxes were. It is in there own interest not to find the owner.

[System Tyrant]

Not in my area.

They only collect what was owed. The remaining amount is held for collection by the property owner. That keeps them from doing just what you suggest they might be doing.

[the1kingarthur]

Another dirty little government secret

Many in my field of social economic research have discovered that tax sales is one of local governments closely guarded dirty little secrets.

The research conducted over the past 50 years indicates that it all depends on the property on how the local government will handle the tax sale.

This is one of America?s darkest and most horrific secrets. Many times a local government would condemn property by virtue of eminent domain not because the property was needed for public use, but because of bribes, and manipulation on behalf of local officials and a business owner. It is not just the tax sale or the condemning of property that has been found to be illegal, but the means in which they perform the tax sale or the condemning of property. Rules of court, and civil procedures are thrown right out the window.

Many times a company will financially support one or more candidates for local office to insure the tax sale or the condemning of property goes through smoothly. These have included all levels of local government, and sever violations of voter fraud. One of the more tragic stories is how companies and candidates will send dozens of vans around picking up voters, and actually pay them to vote. Another means is to go to the local cemeteries, and copy names of recently deceased to use as absentee voters.

Coal companies have raped citizens for decades, and in recent years local government would take the homes of citizens that have been in their family for generations just so Wal Mart or other company could "develop it" on the justification that it would provide a larger tax base.

Compensation? Many times there was no compensation by virtue of legal fees, surcharges, or debt fabricated by the local government, or business to insure there was no compensation or to insure the land owner could never launch a legal defense.

Tax sales, and foreclosures on behalf of local government and their business partners have lead the death of hundreds, if not thousands of American Citizens, but never directly, or proven in a court of law. To see your own government destroy you, your family, and take everything you have away is devastating. It can lead to depression, nervous break downs, and even suicide. In many cases there has been murder committed, although not on a large scale.

This is one area in social economic research and protection of Constitutional Rights where the Internet was the salvation of many American Citizens.

For further study I recommend that everyone that reads this study the following:

History of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Harlan County Ky
Eminent Domain
The Peabody Coal Company
Wal Mart
Your state Civil Rules Procedures and Supreme Court Rules

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