Jenkins County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Jenkins County, seat of Millen: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
New here? Read how Georgia tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Jenkins County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Jenkins County Tax Commissioner
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Not published by the county. The Tax Commissioner keeps a "Tax Sales" item in the navigation of the official office site, but tax-sales.html renders with the heading "Tax Sales" and the office contact sidebar only, with no sale date, no month, no time, no location, and no calendar as of July 2026. The FAQ page describes only the levy trigger: "If the property taxes remain unpaid, the Tax Commissioner has the right and responsibility to levy on the property for non-payment. Of course we consider this a last resort for tax collection and prefer to use other collection methods." Georgia levy sales are cried on the first Tuesday of the month at the county courthouse when a county schedules one, but no Jenkins County page confirms a month or date for this county. Confirm the next sale date by calling (478) 982-4925.
Registration and deposit
Not published. No bidder registration form, deposit rule, payment terms, or pre-registration deadline appears on the Tax Sales page or anywhere else on the Jenkins County Tax Commissioner site. Contact the office at (478) 982-4925 or [email protected] for the current terms before bidding.
Jenkins County runs an in person sale. No online auction platform is named or linked anywhere on the Tax Commissioner site, the county government site, or the Sheriff's site, so no platform URL is reported. Plan on a courthouse sale in Millen conducted by the Tax Commissioner rather than a hosted bidding portal. Every page of the Tax Commissioner site was pulled directly (Home, General Information, Motor Vehicles, Tax Sales, FAQ, Quick Links, News, Contact Us) and the site carries only ad valorem, homestead, appeal, and motor vehicle content plus a Government Window search and pay portal for current bills. The Tax Sales page exists but its content area is an empty template. Probing excess-funds.html, delinquent.html, tax-sale.html, property.html, and sitemap.xml on the office domain all return 404, so there is no published delinquent list, sale list, or excess funds list. The escalation path the county does document is the lien step: per the FAQ, when taxes stay unpaid "more than 30 days" past the due date, "the taxes are subject to a tax fifa (lien) being recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court." Real estate and business personal property bills are due December 20, then draw 1 percent monthly interest plus a 10 percent penalty on anything unpaid within 90 days of the deadline. Because no sale list is posted online, request the levy list directly from the Tax Commissioner and watch the county legal organ for the statutory notice of sale. Jenkins is a small rural county, so sales are infrequent and inventory is thin. The winning bidder receives a redeemable tax deed: the owner or any interested party may redeem for at least 12 months by paying the bid plus a 20 percent premium, then 10 percent for each later year or fraction of a year, under O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Jenkins County Tax Commissioner
611 E Winthrope Ave., Millen, GA 30442 (mailing: P.O. Box 646, Millen, GA 30442)
Official websiteNotes for Jenkins County
- Tax Commissioner is Tina Burke (listed as Tina E. Burke on the county government site). Fax is (478) 982-3233, email [email protected], office hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. No deputy or clerk is named on the official site.
- The Tax Commissioner's Tax Sales page exists at tax-sales.html and is linked from the navigation of every page, but the content area is an empty Government Window template. No sale dates, bidder rules, deposit terms, property list, or excess funds list are posted as of July 2026. That is why data quality is medium rather than high.
- No online auction platform was found for Jenkins County and no platform URL is reported because none was verified. Nothing on the Tax Commissioner site, the county government site, or the Sheriff's site references GovEase, Bid4Assets, RealAuction, or any other bidding portal. Treat the sale as an in person courthouse sale and confirm by phone.
- The Government Window portal linked from the office site as "Search & Pay Taxes" (jenkinscountyga.governmentwindow.com/tax.html) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching and could not be verified. It is described on the office site as a current bill search and payment tool, not a sale list.
- County government contacts for cross-checking a sale notice: Jenkins County Government, 833 E. Winthrope Ave., P.O. Box 797, Millen, GA 30442, 478-982-2563. County Administrator Grady Saxon. The Board of Commissioners meets the second Tuesday of every month at 4 p.m. in the County Annex conference room.
- Tax fi. fa. liens are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court, Tracey Herrington, 478-982-4683, at the Jenkins County Courthouse in Millen. The Clerk publishes no tax sale or sheriff sale listings online.
- For pre-bid diligence, parcel and valuation data is at the Board of Tax Assessors qPublic site (https://qpublic.net/ga/jenkins/). Tax Assessor Vicky Patrick, phone 478-982-4939, fax 478-982-3706. Useful because no sale list is posted.
- Jenkins County Sheriff is Robert Oglesby, 478-982-4211. The Sheriff's official site carries only administration, patrol, jail, permit, and public safety sections and publishes no levy or tax sale notices.
- The Georgia Department of Revenue county page for Jenkins carries no county-specific sale logistics. It routes users to jenkinscountyga.com and notes that Jenkins County has no local homestead exemptions.
- The county government website has no public notices or legal notices section. Its full link index covers administration, minutes and agendas, emergency services, registrar, sheriff, tax commissioner, parks, and economic development only, so newspaper advertisement in the county legal organ is the practical notice channel.
- Address note for the county site itself: the footer of jenkinscountyga.com carries 548 Cotton Avenue, Millen, GA 30442, (478) 982-5595, which is the economic development and chamber contact, while the Administration page gives 833 E. Winthrope Ave., P.O. Box 797, 478-982-2563 for county government. Neither is the Tax Commissioner's office, which is at 611 E Winthrope Ave.
- Recommended re-verification cadence is high. Because the county publishes nothing about sales online, any timing, platform, or registration claim must come from a dated phone call to the Tax Commissioner.
Georgia statewide rules
- Redemption
- The right to redeem runs for 12 months from the date of the sale and does not end there. It continues after the year until the tax deed purchaser forecloses it by serving and publishing the statutory barment notice, which cannot be started until 12 months have passed. The purchaser delivers the notice to the sheriff at least 45 days before the redemption deadline named in it, and publishes it once a week for four consecutive weeks in the six months immediately before that deadline. Redemption puts title back in the defendant in fi. fa. subject to the liens that existed at the sale, and the purchaser must execute and record a quitclaim deed. Title under a tax deed recorded on or after July 1, 1996 ripens by prescription four years after recording. Judicial in rem foreclosures under Article 5 run on a different clock: the owner has 60 days after the sale to redeem by paying the minimum bid price into the superior court.
- Deed deposit
- Georgia sets no statewide percentage deposit. A purchaser at a judicial sale may tender cash or a cashier's or certified check drawn for the purchase price and issued or certified by a federally insured financial institution. Counties publish their own payment terms, and many require payment in full at the close of the sale, so confirm the terms with the tax commissioner before bidding.
- Surplus proceeds
- Excess funds left after taxes, costs, and the expenses of the sale belong to the former owner and to recorded lienholders in order of priority. The officer who sold the property must mail notice of the excess funds by first-class mail within 30 days to the record owner at the time of the sale, to the holder of each security deed, and to every other party with a recorded equity interest or claim, and may file an interpleader action in superior court. Funds still unclaimed five years after the sale are paid over to the Georgia Department of Revenue, after which only a court order from an interpleader action releases them.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Jenkins County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Jenkins County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Jenkins County hold tax deed sales?
- annual. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.
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