Taylor County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Taylor County, seat of Butler: 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.
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How Taylor County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Taylor County Tax Commissioner's Office (Shirley Graham, Tax Commissioner). The county Tax Office page names this office as the one to ask about "Purchasing tax liens", and the Sheriff's Office page carries nothing about levy or tax sales, consistent with the Tax Commissioner acting as ex officio sheriff for tax executions.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No sale date is published online. The county Tax Office page lists the Tax Commissioner's office as "the best source of information for questions about: Paying your tax bill - taylorcountygapay.com / Registration of your motor vehicle / Purchasing tax liens" and gives no sale calendar, sale notice, or date. The county website's full XML sitemap contains only 19 URLs and includes no tax sale, delinquent tax, levy, or excess funds page. Georgia levy sales run on the first Tuesday of the month between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. under O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 1, but Taylor County publishes no specific month or date. Confirm the next sale directly with the Tax Commissioner at 478-862-3637.
Registration and deposit
No bidder registration form, deposit rule, or payment terms are published on any official Taylor County page. Treat this as a walk-up county sale: plan to register in person with the Tax Commissioner before the cry of the sale and to pay in full at the close under the terms announced that day. Call 478-862-3637 to confirm registration requirements and accepted funds before traveling.
Taylor County publishes no online auction platform and no online sale listing. Nothing on the county website, the Tax Commissioner's payment portal, the Sheriff's Office page, or the Tax Assessor's qPublic site advertises an online tax sale, so buyers should treat this as a traditional in person Georgia levy sale cried at the courthouse in Butler until the Tax Commissioner says otherwise. The Taylor County Courthouse is at 2 North Broad St., Butler, GA 31006; the county Government Complex is at 7 Ivy Street. The taylorcountygapay.com link on the Tax Office page redirects to a Government Window portal (taylorcountyga.governmentwindow.com/tax.html), but that portal is a property tax bill search and payment page only. It served no tax sale, delinquent list, or bidder content, so it is not an auction platform and no platform_url is reported here. Georgia sells a redeemable tax deed: the purchaser takes a deed subject to a 12 month right of redemption at a 20 percent premium plus 10 percent for each later year, with barment and foreclosure of the right to redeem under O.C.G.A. 48-4-45 and 48-4-46. No delinquent tax list, levy list, or excess funds list was found on any official county page, so the county legal organ newspaper notice and a direct call to the Tax Commissioner are the practical ways to see the parcels.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Taylor County
- County seat is Butler. The Tax Commissioner's office is at 1A Ivy St., Butler, GA 31006, with mail to P.O. Box 446, Butler, GA 31006.
- Tax Commissioner is Shirley Graham. Office hours listed as 8 AM to 12 PM and 1 PM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday, closed for lunch. Fax 478-862-3633.
- The Taylor County Courthouse is at 2 North Broad St., Butler, GA 31006, phone 478-862-5594 for Superior Court. Lisa Akey is listed as Superior Court Clerk, the office that records the tax deed.
- The county's entire XML sitemap was reviewed and lists 19 URLs with no tax sale, delinquent tax, levy, or excess funds page. The only tax document linked from the Tax Office page is the 2024 Tax Digest and 5 Year History of Levy PDF.
- No online auction platform was verified for this county. taylorcountygapay.com redirects to a Government Window property tax payment portal that carries no tax sale content.
- The Taylor County Sheriff's Office (5 N Ivy Street, non-emergency dispatch 478-862-5451) publishes nothing about levy or tax sales.
- The Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Jason Sapp, 1A Ivy Street, 478-862-3802) sets values only; its qPublic site carries no tax sale information. Use it for parcel research before bidding.
- Georgia Department of Revenue's County Property Tax Facts page for Taylor lists www.taylorcountyga.com as the Tax Commissioner website and adds no county-specific tax sale detail.
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 Taylor County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Taylor County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Taylor 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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