Box Elder County, UT tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Box Elder County, UT tax sale, one of 2,862 counties in 36 states. Utah sells the deed itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Sep 11, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Box Elder County, seat of Brigham City: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Utah tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- May, annually.
- Format
- County site
- County office
- 435-734-3388
On this page
How Box Elder County sells delinquent taxes
No tax lien certificate sale
Utah sells no tax lien certificate to investors, and no statute in Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 13 creates one. The county treasurer holds the delinquency, interest and penalties accrue to the county, and the only instrument an investor can buy is the tax deed the county auditor issues at the May or June tax sale.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Box Elder County Auditor's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- May, annually.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidding is online only, so each bidder must register an account with Public Surplus, the auction company the county names on its tax sale page, and finish registration by the deadline the county posts. A bid deposit may be required. Bidders may bid in increments or set a confidential maximum through the Auto Bid feature. To qualify you must be at least 18, owe no outstanding Box Elder County tax debt, follow the county tax sale ordinance and the auction site's rules, and not attempt to sell parcels carrying a recorded notice of noncompliance. The Auditor's Office answers eligibility questions at 435-734-3388.
Sale format and venue
Box Elder County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Box Elder County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Get the advertised list
Use Tax Sale Page, Box Elder County Auditor for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
May, annually. Bidding runs on County site; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Box Elder County Auditor's Office as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Box Elder County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Tax Sale Page, Box Elder County Auditor. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Bidding is online only, so each bidder must register an account with Public Surplus, the auction company the county names on its tax sale page, and finish registration by the deadline the county posts. A bid deposit may be required. Bidders may bid in increments or set a confidential maximum through the Auto Bid feature. To qualify you must be at least 18, owe no outstanding Box Elder County tax debt, follow the county tax sale ordinance and the auction site's rules, and not attempt to sell parcels carrying a recorded notice of noncompliance. The Auditor's Office answers eligibility questions at 435-734-3388.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Utah due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in Utah before you price the title work.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold properties
Utah sells no tax lien certificates, so there is nothing to buy over the counter between sales except land the county already owns. Any parcel offered at the tax sale with no purchaser is struck off to the county and fee simple title vests there. The county legislative body may then dispose of that property for a price and on terms it sets, with the county clerk executing the deed, and may also rent or lease it. Terms are set county by county and there is no statewide list, so ask the county auditor or clerk what the county holds from earlier tax sales and how it sells it.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Utah calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- The parcel list is posted on the county tax sale page about six weeks before the sale and runs in the Box Elder News Journal four weeks before the sale, so the list is not available year round. Outside that window, call the Auditor's Office at 435-734-3388 and watch the tax sale page.
- Some parcels carry a recorded notice of noncompliance. It warns that any further division, subdivision, sale, exchange or transfer of the parcel may violate Utah state code and county ordinances and is punishable as a criminal offense. Parcels bought at the sale that do not meet applicable zoning will carry that notice.
- Winning bids are conditional, contested or not, until the Board of County Commissioners reviews and accepts them at a regularly scheduled meeting. The county reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
- If a final bid is rejected, the county may offer the parcel to the second highest bidder at that bidder's amount. Any parcel that draws no minimum bid is struck off to Box Elder County, and parcels struck to the county may later be sold through the Auditor's Office once the County Commission approves.
- Anyone may redeem a parcel on behalf of the record owner by paying the County Treasurer all delinquent taxes, interest, penalties and administrative costs at any time before the sale starts. Paying that amount removes the parcel from the sale and does not transfer ownership to the payer.
- Protests of any action connected with the sale must be submitted in writing to the County Commission through the County Clerk at 1 S. Main St., Brigham City, UT 84302 within ten calendar days of the sale.
- The county tax sale page links an interactive parcel map where you can enter a parcel number to locate a property before bidding.
- The elected County Auditor is Shirlene Larsen, and the office is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A toll free line is also published at 877-390-2326.
Utah rules
- Redemption
- Utah gives the buyer no post-sale redemption risk and gives the owner no post-sale second chance. Any person may redeem on behalf of the record owner at any time before the tax sale, which is held in May or June following the lapse of four years from the date the tax or tax notice charge became delinquent. Once the auditor accepts a bid and executes the tax deed, the conveyance is in fee simple and the deed is prima facie evidence of the regularity of everything that led to it. What replaces a redemption period here is a limitation period on challenges: an action or defense to recover, take possession of, quiet title to, or determine ownership of the property may not be brought against the holder of a tax title more than four years after the sale or conveyance, and that bar does not reach an owner who actually occupied the property within four years of the action, or a city or town asserting an equal or superior lien.
- Deed deposit
- Utah Code sets no statewide deposit. Each county fixes its own terms by ordinance and in the auction notice, and they differ: Salt Lake County requires a refundable 500 dollar deposit wired before bidding opens, while Utah County's notice warns only that bidders may be subject to nonrefundable fees or deposits depending on the bid method used. Confirm the deposit, the deadline for posting it, and whether it is refundable before you register.
- Surplus proceeds
- Sale money goes into the county treasury and the treasurer settles with the taxing entities and tax notice charge entities. Anything above the delinquent taxes, tax notice charges, penalties, interest and administrative costs is treated as unclaimed property under Title 67, Chapter 4a, the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, rather than paid out by the county as a surplus fund. A former owner therefore claims it through the state unclaimed property process, not from the auditor.
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.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Sep 11, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.
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