Tangipahoa County, LA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •The Sheriff's Office serves as ex officio tax collector for Tangipahoa Parish and runs the annual tax lien auction. The Parish Government is a separate office and sells the adjudicated property that earlier auctions did not clear. Payments and in-person business are handled at 313 E. Oak Street in Amite and 15475 Club Deluxe Road in Hammond.
• •Louisiana bids down ownership rather than interest. The lien goes to whoever will accept the smallest undivided percentage interest in the parcel, so a winning bid of one percent buys the lien plus a claim to a one percent interest if the lien is never terminated. Winning here rarely means acquiring the whole tract.
• •The tax collector's own notice describes the process as a tax lien auction and describes paying off the debt as terminating the lien, matching Louisiana's shift away from transferring tax sale title. Termination costs the delinquent obligation, a five percent penalty, and interest not to exceed one percent per month on a non-compounding basis, computed on the amount the purchaser paid at auction. An owner may pay in full up to the day before the auction.
• •Bid4Assets carries Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff real property foreclosure auctions, which are mortgage and writ sales with a $1,000 deposit and their own monthly dates. Those are not the tax lien auction. A search for a Tangipahoa sheriff sale tends to surface that page first, so check which sale you are bidding into.
• •The Sheriff's website publishes no tax sale calendar, bidder page or delinquent list. Watch the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff page on CivicSource for the sale to post and call the tax department at 985-205-8160 to confirm the date and the property list.
• •The City of Hammond, the City of Ponchatoula and the Town of Amite have run their own municipal tax lien auctions on CivicSource alongside the parish sale, so a single parcel can carry more than one collector's lien.

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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