presumably the county failed to credit one tax payment that took two attempts for our bank to process and pay to the State.
We assume at this point that one computer did not talk to another computer since Agnes in receiving took a long lunch that day ;)

We will know more in days to come. The language of a forclosing auction action is so arcane... "The State prays to redeem said property".

if and when the clerical error is corrected we will still have to fight to have all their lawyer, title searchers, clerks and court fees waived, let alone the publications in all the newspapers for the next 3 weeks.

We had no problems for 20 years but from the time we bought this house from 2 IRS employees 4 years ago, we have had 6 allegations of not "Filing taxes going back 10 years and now this.

My lawyer affirms that IRS tipsters do get half of anything collected by way of fines. The easiest to Phish for money is to write the IRS that Joe Shmoe 'failed to file taxes in 1999' since a 10 year old form can easily go missing. The penalty of a failure to file (despite proving all taxes were paid) could be as much as $1,000 if you can not prove you filed - note the IRS has no requirement to prove anything. A devious person reading this could go into their own cottage business "informers R Us" Just come up with a name, an address and a year. Some are bound to pay a fine for a missing reciept.

ITs enough to make me ponder if there is a deliberate malevolent hand respondsible for these groundless allegations. Something akin to 'God's warriors' that the guy across the street said has ways to punish God's enemies.

For the time being I choose to believe that the current lack of social finesse and correct accounting is merely a sign of our government's desperate and negligent times. They say you can't sue city hall.

Now is the time for all good men to go search for their receipts.