Garfield County, UT tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Garfield 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 Garfield County, seat of Panguitch: 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.
- Announcements
- The parcel list is the Notice of Final Tax Sale.
- Registration
- No advance registration, deposit or online account is published.
- County office
- 435-676-1120
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How Garfield 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
- Garfield County Clerk/Auditor
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- No advance registration, deposit or online account is published.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
No advance registration, deposit or online account is published. Bidders appear at the courthouse on sale day and bid from the floor, and the Clerk/Auditor sells to the highest bidder for cash. The floor price on every parcel is the total taxes, interest, penalty and administrative cost charged against it, and a bid below that total is not accepted. Utah leaves payment terms to each county, so call the Clerk/Auditor at 435-676-1120 before sale day to confirm the accepted forms of payment and the deadline for handing them over.
Sale format and venue
Garfield County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Garfield 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 Notice of Final Tax Sale and parcel list, Garfield County Clerk/Auditor for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Garfield County Clerk/Auditor as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Garfield County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Notice of Final Tax Sale and parcel list, Garfield County Clerk/Auditor. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
No advance registration, deposit or online account is published. Bidders appear at the courthouse on sale day and bid from the floor, and the Clerk/Auditor sells to the highest bidder for cash. The floor price on every parcel is the total taxes, interest, penalty and administrative cost charged against it, and a bid below that total is not accepted. Utah leaves payment terms to each county, so call the Clerk/Auditor at 435-676-1120 before sale day to confirm the accepted forms of payment and the deadline for handing them over.
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
- Garfield County takes the highest dollar bid for the whole parcel. Both its 2025 and 2026 notices sell to the highest bidder for cash under Utah Code 59-2-1351.1, so the lowest acreage and undivided interest methods some Utah counties use do not apply here.
- The sale is live at the Garfield County Courthouse, 55 South Main Street in Panguitch, at 10:00 a.m. There is no online auction platform and no remote bidding, so plan to attend or send someone.
- The parcel list is the Notice of Final Tax Sale. It is posted on the Clerk/Auditor page each spring and published in The Insider once a week for the four weeks before the sale, which for the June 10, 2026 auction meant May 14, May 21, May 28 and June 4.
- The offering is tiny and rural. Four parcels went to the 2026 sale and ten to the 2025 sale, mostly subdivision lots and metes and bounds acreage, with total taxes and fees due on most parcels under 5,000 dollars.
- Minimum bid is the full amount owed. No bid below the total taxes, interest, penalty and administrative cost charged against the parcel is accepted, and that total is printed beside each parcel in the notice.
- Two other Garfield County auctions are not the tax sale. The county surplus sale takes sealed bids on vehicles and equipment in July, and listing sites that republish Utah tax sale parcels do not conduct this auction, which takes bids only in the courthouse.
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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