Plaquemines County, LA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •The Sheriff's Tax Division collects Plaquemines property taxes and runs the annual tax lien auction. Its counter is at 8022 Highway 23 in Belle Chasse, not at the courthouse in Pointe a la Hache, and it opens 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
• •Plaquemines sells online through Zeus Auction, the SRI platform, and not through CivicSource, which handles many other Louisiana parishes.
• •A free Zeus account is needed before parcel lists open, and bidders register for each sale separately.
• •Plaquemines listed the 2021 roll as a tax title sale and every roll from 2022 forward as a tax lien sale, matching Louisiana's shift toward selling a lien rather than transferring tax sale title.
• •Property taxes are due by December 31 and go delinquent after that date, so a given tax year reaches auction the following June.
• •Parcels that draw no bid stay adjudicated to Plaquemines Parish Government, which sells them under its Adjudicated Property Program, authorized by La. R.S. 47:2196 for anything adjudicated to the parish since January 1, 1975 and held at least three years.
• •An adjudicated purchase starts with an application and a $1,000 administrative fee per parcel, by certified check or money order payable to E&P Consulting Services, LLC, the parish management company. The fee is refundable until a written offer to bid is signed.
• •Adjudicated parcels are auctioned in the foyer of Parish Government Building 100, 333 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse, and a buyer has to attend in person. The parish sets no minimum bid, sells for cash without warranty of title, and can rescind the sale if the buyer does not improve or use the tract within 365 days.
• •Adjudicated sales are advertised twice in the Plaquemines Gazette, once at least thirty days before the auction and once within seven days of it.
• •The monthly Sheriff's Sales the office also posts on Zeus are mortgage foreclosure auctions run by the Civil Department, held the second Friday of most months at 10 a.m. They take a deposit and bid up, and are separate from the June tax lien auction.

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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