Pulaski County, IL tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Pulaski County, seat of Mound City: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 30, 2026 against official county and state sources.
New here? Read how Illinois tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Pulaski County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Pulaski County Treasurer, serving as ex officio County Collector
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Pulaski County does not publish an annual tax sale date. The Treasurer's page confirms the sale exists and fixes it after the installment due dates, stating that "Interest is added at the rate of 1-1/2% per month for delinquent taxes or any fraction thereof, after due dates until the annual property tax sale." The same page lists the 2025 tax installments as "Due dates for 2025 Taxes are July 9th & September 9th, 2026," so the annual sale follows the September 9, 2026 second installment. Call the Treasurer's office at 618-748-9322 to confirm the current sale date.
Registration and deposit
The county publishes no registration instructions or bidder packet for the annual tax sale, so registration terms must be confirmed with the Treasurer's office at 618-748-9322. Separately, for the Joseph E. Meyer & Associates trustee auctions of Pulaski County parcels, which are run as sealed bid sales, the published process is to buy the county catalog (available roughly 30 days before the sale), take the bid form and purchase contract from the catalog, pick it up at the Treasurer's Office, or download it from the county page, then submit the bid with payment in full by certified funds or personal check before the deadline. Bids can also be purchased and submitted through the iltaxsalebids.com portal, which requires a user account. The agent states that "Bids received after the deadline will not be accepted" and that bidders are notified of results by mail roughly 7 to 10 days after the sealed bid deadline.
No online platform is confirmed for Pulaski County's annual tax sale, so verify the format and location with the Treasurer's office before planning a trip. The county website is a 15 page site with no tax sale, delinquent list, or bidder registration page at all; the only reference to the sale is on the Treasurer's page, which says "The Treasurer also supervises the sale of delinquent real estate taxes." Nothing on any official page states whether the annual sale is held in person at the courthouse or online, and no delinquent tax list is posted online. A separate and often confused sale does have verified county specific detail. Joseph E. Meyer & Associates describes itself as "the Delinquent Tax Agent for 94 of 102 counties in Illinois" and explains that "Properties not purchased by tax buyers at the County Tax Sales are enrolled in the trustee program and managed by Joseph E. Meyer & Associates. After the redemption period expires on delinquent properties, Joseph E. Meyer & Associates obtains tax deeds on behalf of the taxing districts and sells the properties at public auction." That is the trustee tax deed channel, not the annual certificate sale. The agent's Pulaski County page lists an upcoming auction dated 11/13/2026, type "Real Estate - Sealed Bid," minimum bid $822.00, with the contact and bid location given as Robert Moore, Treasurer, Pulaski County Courthouse, 500 Illinois Avenue, Mound City, IL 62963, hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Three prior Pulaski sealed bid sales are listed for 02/09/2024, 11/01/2024, and 10/31/2025, all with free result PDFs, which suggests a recurring late autumn pattern for the trustee sale. The same page offers a "List of Assignable Certificates" for Pulaski County at $25, which is the over the counter certificate channel for parcels already in the trustee inventory. Because these are tax deed and assignable certificate sales rather than the county's annual lien auction, they are described here in notes and not recorded as the certificate sale platform. Agent contact for the trustee sales is (618) 656-5744 and [email protected]. Investors should also note that Meyer sells subject to unknown title condition, stating bidders are "responsible to obtain and pay for any title examination and/or survey," with a 30 day window to rescind for unmarketable title.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Sheriff or a court-appointed private selling officer, under an order of the circuit court. A county acting as trustee runs its own tax deed auctions.
- Frequency
- as ordered by the circuit court
- Typical timing
- Within 120 days after the court order authorizing the auction. Public Act 104-0553 created this route for tax certificates issued on or after July 10, 2026, so the earliest Illinois judicial tax deed auctions fall in 2027, after the 1 year short redemption track runs.
Registration and deposit
Terms of a judicial tax deed auction, including whether it runs online, in person, or both, and what deposit is required, are set in the court's order and published in the notice of tax deed auction. That notice runs once a week for 3 consecutive weeks, starting no more than 45 days and ending no less than 7 days before the auction. Read the notice for each parcel; there is no statewide platform or standing bidder registration.
Bidding opens at the tax deed judgment amount plus 0.75 percent per month since judgment, plus publication and selling officer costs. The petitioning certificate holder is entered as a credit bidder at that minimum. Surplus above the minimum goes to the county treasurer for the former owner to claim.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
Certificates nobody bids on at the annual sale are forfeited to the county as trustee for the taxing districts. The county may then assign a forfeited certificate to any party or sell property it has acquired, which many counties handle through a delinquent tax agent rather than a public counter. Counties may also offer county-held certificates at a scavenger sale with a minimum bid of $250, or half the tax when total liability is under $500. Ask the county collector and the county clerk which program the county runs and who may buy.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Pulaski County Courthouse, 500 Illinois Ave Rm. B, P.O. Box 108, Mound City, IL 62963
Official websiteNotes for Pulaski County
- Treasurer of record is Robert Moore. The Illinois County Treasurers' Association county page lists him as Robert L. "Robbie" Moore and names office staff Marita Garrett and Cheryl Dunaway.
- Treasurer fax is 618-748-9312 and the listed email is [email protected]. The pulaskicountyil.gov domain did not respond when tested, while the working public site is pulaskicountyil.net.
- Property tax payment channels are the Treasurer's Office at the courthouse, First State Bank of Olmsted (Olmsted and Mounds), First State Bank of Dongola in Ullin, Grand Rivers Community Bank in Karnak, online through the county's payment button, or by phone at 618-262-0950. The Treasurer's page warns that "The bank will NOT collect delinquent taxes."
- 2025 tax bills were to be mailed on or before June 9, 2026, with installments due July 9 and September 9, 2026. Mobile home tax bills were mailed May 15 and were due August 20, 2026, and mobile home taxes are payable only in person at the Treasurer's Office or by mail.
- Under Illinois practice the County Clerk handles redemption of sold taxes. The Pulaski County Clerk is Julie Hancock, P.O. Box 118, Mound City, IL 62963, phone 618-748-9360. The Clerk's page does not mention tax sale redemption, so redemption amounts must be requested directly from that office.
- The county courthouse address for both offices is 500 Illinois Ave, Mound City, IL 62963, with office hours Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and a noon to 1:00 p.m. lunch closure.
- Data gap to close on a later pass: the annual tax sale date, sale format (in person versus online), bidder registration and deposit terms, and the published delinquent tax list are all absent from every official Pulaski County page, and no state level Illinois portal carries them for this county.
Illinois statewide rules
- Redemption
- Property sold at an Illinois tax sale may be redeemed at any time before the redemption period expires. Public Act 104-0553 set the standard period at 3 years from the date of sale for tax certificates issued on or after July 10, 2026. Certificates issued between January 1, 2024 and July 9, 2026 run on the earlier 2.5 year (30 month) track, and on that track the certificate holder could file a written notice with the county clerk extending redemption to a date no later than 3 years from the sale. A short 1 year period applies when the parcel was, on the date of sale, vacant non-farm property, commercial or industrial property, or improved with a structure holding 7 or more residential units. Certificates the county holds or assigns as trustee run on their own schedule under Section 21-385, and an assignee must file notice within 60 days of assignment setting a redemption deadline no later than 3 years from the assignment.
- Deed deposit
- Illinois does not fix a statutory deposit percentage. Deposit and payment terms are set in the court's order authorizing the auction and by the selling officer, so read the notice of tax deed auction for each sale. A purchaser who fails to complete the sale forfeits any deposit already made to the county surplus equity fund, and the court orders a new auction of the property.
- Surplus proceeds
- Any amount by which the winning bid exceeds the minimum bid is surplus. Within 30 days after the court confirms the sale the selling officer deposits the surplus with the county treasurer, who notifies everyone who received the Section 22-10 take notice that the owner at the time of the sale may file a claim for it. A county running its own tax deed auction deposits surplus with the treasurer within 30 days of the sale and notifies interested parties within 60 days. Separately, a previous owner who lost equity through a tax deed can claim an award from the county surplus equity fund, capped at the value of the property when the deed issued less mortgages, liens, and the taxes the purchaser paid.
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 Pulaski County, Illinois sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Pulaski County follows Illinois's tax lien state system.
When is the Pulaski County tax certificate sale?
- Pulaski County does not publish an annual tax sale date. The Treasurer's page confirms the sale exists and fixes it after the installment due dates, stating that "Interest is added at the rate of 1-1/2% per month for delinquent taxes or any fraction thereof, after due dates until the annual property tax sale." The same page lists the 2025 tax installments as "Due dates for 2025 Taxes are July 9th & September 9th, 2026," so the annual sale follows the September 9, 2026 second installment. Call the Treasurer's office at 618-748-9322 to confirm the current sale date.. Registration and bidding happen on the county's online platform. Always confirm the exact date with the Tax Collector before the sale.
How often does Pulaski County hold tax deed sales?
- as ordered by the circuit court. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
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