Winn County, LA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •Sheriff Josh McAllister serves as ex-officio tax collector for Winn Parish. Office phone (318) 628-4611, fax (318) 628-7969, at 119 West Main Street, Courthouse Room 106, Winnfield, LA 71483, with mail to P.O. Box 950, Winnfield, LA 71483. Jo Ann Martin is the tax deputy.
• •Winn Parish Tax Assessor Lawerence Desadier, Winn Parish Courthouse, 119 West Main Street, Room 101, Winnfield, LA 71483, phone (318) 628-3267. This office holds the adjudicated property records and the online property database that buyers use to identify parcels, because the Police Jury maintains no list of its own.
• •Winn Parish Police Jury handles adjudicated property at 119 West Main Street, Room 102, Winnfield, LA 71483, mailing P.O. Box 951, Winnfield, LA 71483, phone (318) 628-5824, email [email protected]. Michelle Hickman is named as the contact for adjudicated property questions. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• •Winn Parish Clerk of Court Chesney Creel Chandler, (318) 628-3515, is the recording office for parish conveyance records, which is where a tax sale certificate or an adjudication is filed and where title work starts.
• •No online auction platform is confirmed for Winn Parish and no sale calendar or bidder list is published for the annual tax sale. Verify the date, the venue and the bidding format with the Sheriff's Office before making travel plans.
• •The Police Jury's current application form sets the adjudicated property fee at $350 by money order, with the appraisal route adding the appraiser's cost on top. The program description page still quotes older figures, so confirm the amount with the Police Jury before sending funds.
• •Winnfield is the parish seat and every office involved in a Winn Parish tax sale, the sheriff as tax collector, the assessor, the Police Jury and the Clerk of Court, sits in the same courthouse at 119 West Main Street.

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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