States › Utah › Summit County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 128
Coalville, UT 84017-0128
Phone: (435) 336-4451
Fax: (435) 336-4450
www.summitcounty.org

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid Up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Summit county, Utah is unable to collect real estate property taxes they are also unable to provide important government services like police protection, public schooling and medical services.

Unpaid property taxes create a serious cashflow problem for Summit county, Utah.

Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Summit county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Summit county newspaper of general circulation. They are listed by sequence number. Parcels fall into 1 of 2 groups. Each group is sorted by parcel number.

The advertisement appears about three to six weeks before the Summit county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.

To solve this problem Summit county, Utah allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Summit county, Utah lien for taxes. A tax lien is simply a claim for delinquent taxes.

Why would investors do this?

Well, depending on Utah laws and competition, savvy Summit county tax sale investors can realize high-yielding returns with Utah tax lien certificates and/or purchase real estate for a fraction of its true market value with Utah tax deeds.

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Bob Richer	Commissioner, Chair	bricher@pureutah.com
Sally Elliott	Commissioner	selliott@co.summit.ut.us
Ken Woostenhulme	Commissioner	commission@co.summit.ut.us
David Edmunds	Sheriff	dedmunds@co.summit.ut.us
Glen Thompson	Treasurer	gthompson@co.summit.ut.us
Blake Frazier	Auditor	bfrazier@co.summit.ut.us
Barbara Kresser	Assessor	bkresser@co.summit.ut.us
Susan Follett	County Clerk	sfollett@co.summit.ut.us
Alan Spriggs	Recorder	aspriggs@co.summit.ut.us

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