Evangeline County, LA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •Evangeline Parish sells its tax liens online at zeusauction.com. There is no in-person courthouse tax sale to attend, and no bidding is possible without an approved Zeus account for that specific sale.
• •The parish sale is an annual event tied to the prior tax year: the 2026 auction enforced taxes assessed in 2025. Registration opens roughly a month before bidding and closes about nine days before it, so the practical deadline is mid-May.
• •Property adjudicated to the parish is a separate path from the lien auction. The Evangeline Parish Police Jury runs its own auction page on CivicSource at civicsource.com/auctions/epj. Reach the Police Jury at 1008 W. La Salle St., Ville Platte, LA 70586, (337) 363-5651.
• •Two municipalities inside the parish run tax sales of their own on top of the parish sale. The City of Ville Platte has sold through zeusauction.com in late May, and the Town of Mamou has sold at the front door of Mamou City Hall beginning at 10:00 a.m. in late September. A parcel inside either town can therefore appear in more than one sale.
• •The City of Ville Platte also disposes of its own adjudicated property by sealed bid with a $500 minimum, with bids delivered to the Mayor's Office at 126 E. Main Street, Ville Platte, (337) 363-2939. Those bids use the city's official bid form and envelope.
• •Do not confuse the tax lien auction with the Sheriff's mortgage foreclosure sales. Those are held at the Sheriff's Office, 200 Court St., Suite 100, on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m., and each property is advertised twice within thirty days in the Sunday Ville Platte Gazette.
• •For assessed value, homestead exemption, or a change of address, call the Evangeline Parish Assessor at (337) 363-4310 rather than the tax collector.

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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