Supreme Court rules for woman who says county took too much for tax debt
Posted on AllSides May 25th, 2023
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The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a woman who said a Minnesota county unfairly pocketed the profit when it seized and sold her condominium for more than she owed in taxes. Hennepin County, which contains Minneapolis, foreclosed on Geraldine Tyler’s one-bedroom condo after she moved into an apartment building for the elderly and stopped paying property taxes for five years. Tyler, 94, owed about $15,000 in taxes and penalties. The county sold her condo for $40,000 and kept the surplus, as the law allows in Minnesota, the District of...
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