tax sale
noun [C] US LAW, PROPERTYDefinition
› a situation in which the government takes and sells the property of people who have not paid tax: They bought the building very cheaply in a tax sale last year. The tax sale process is used to collect any debt over $10,000 dollars.
(Definition of tax sale noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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