Catahoula County, LA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •The sheriff is the tax collector here. The Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office collects parish property taxes and conducts the annual tax sale through its Civil and Tax Division at 100 Pine Street in Harrisonburg, reachable at 318-744-5411 for the main line and (318) 744-6048 for the property tax office, open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Assessment values, homestead exemptions and address changes go to the Catahoula Parish Tax Assessor at (318) 744-5291 instead. Sheriff Toney Edwards signs the sale notice.
• •There is no online bidding for this parish. The sale is conducted in person at the courthouse door in Harrisonburg, so budget for a trip or a local representative rather than a bidder account.
• •Research parcels before you travel. The parish online property tax payment and search tool lets you look up a tax notice, bill number, parcel number, taxpayer name or address for tax years back to 2020, which is the quickest way to confirm what is owed on a parcel you intend to bid on.
• •Watch the newspaper, not a website. The delinquent tax listing runs as a legal advertisement in the parish community newspaper, the Catahoula News Booster in Jonesville, and the sheriff's office posts the same notice on its Facebook page. No sale list or bidder packet is published on the sheriff's website.
• •Parcels drawing no bid are adjudicated to the parish, and no adjudicated property list is published here. Ask the property tax office at (318) 744-6048 how the parish disposes of adjudicated parcels before you count on a post-sale purchase.

Louisiana rules

Max interest rate

12% per year, bid down in 1.2% steps to an 8.4% floorLouisiana Revised Statutes 47:2154 - Tax lien auctions; time of auction; priceLa. R.S. 47:2154Verified Aug 24, 2026

Minimum return

5% floor at redemptionLouisiana Revised Statutes 47:2127 - Time for payment; interest and penalty; notificationLa. R.S. 47:2127Verified Aug 24, 2026

Redemption

Louisiana replaced redemption with extinguishment of the lien, and the shape is different from a redemption clock. There is no date on which the owner's right lapses by itself. Any person may pay the termination price to the tax collector at any time. The holder cannot even start the enforcement suit until the later of three years from recordation of the certificate or six months after the R.S. 47:2156 notices went out, and once suit is filed the right to pay survives until the close of business on the thirtieth day after the last party was served. After that the tax collector stops accepting payment, and the lien can be extinguished only by the holder's own act or by court order: a party holding an interest may still file a contradictory motion before the judicial sale and ask the court to set the termination price, which the court fixes within 30 days and which must then be paid within 30 days more. The pressure on the holder comes from the other end. R.S. 47:2155(C) makes the right to sue peremptive at seven years from recordation, suspended while a political subdivision holds the certificate or a recorded bankruptcy stay is pending, after which the lien is extinguished and the inscription cancelled. Redemption periods that the constitution used to provide remain peremptive under R.S. 47:2241, but the amended constitution no longer provides any.Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2266.1 - Procedure to recognize amounts due under tax lien certificateLa. R.S. 47:2266.1Verified Aug 24, 2026

Surplus proceeds

R.S. 47:2267(B)(1) ranks the proceeds. The sheriff deducts the costs of the sale and any commission, then pays the plaintiff certificate holder the judgment plus judicial interest through the date of sale and reasonable costs and attorney fees, then any other tax lien certificate holders whose rights have not perempted, then holders of recorded mortgages, liens and privileges, and finally each owner according to their interest. The certificate holder is paid immediately even if the remaining parties are still arguing, and a dispute over the surplus cannot delay the sheriff's deed. Proceeds that cannot be delivered go into the registry of the court, and surplus left unclaimed for one year falls under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act of 1997, R.S. 9:151 and following. The constitution now requires this: La. Const. art. VII, sec. 25(A)(1)(d) makes a procedure for claiming excess proceeds a minimum feature of the scheme.Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:2267 - Procedure to enforce tax lien; proceeds of judicial saleLa. R.S. 47:2267Verified Aug 24, 2026

Governing statute

La. Const. art. VII, sec. 25Louisiana Constitution article VII, section 25 - Tax Administration (as amended by Acts 2024, No. 409, effective January 1, 2026)La. Const. art. VII, sec. 25Verified Aug 24, 2026

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.

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