re: $8.41 in taxes man that's gonna leave a mark

Michigan Supreme Court filing.

There is perhaps no more troubling and unjust
example of an abuse of the forfeiture power as what
Oakland County, Michigan, did to 82-year-old, Uri
Rafaeli. Mr. Rafaeli inadvertently underpaid the 2011
property taxes on his $60,000 Southfield, Michigan,
home by $8.41. See Rafaeli, LLC v. Oakland County,
No. 330696, 2017 WL 4803570, at *5 (Mich. Ct. App.
Oct. 24, 2017) (Shapiro, J., concurring). Rafaeli paid
the 2012, 2013, and early 2014 taxes in full and on
time. Nevertheless, in 2014, Oakland County
foreclosed on the property to collect the $8.41 tax
deficiency dating back to 2011. Rafaeli, LLC v. Wayne
County, No. 14-13958, 2015 WL 3522546, at *2 (E.D.
Mich. June 4, 2015). The County auctioned the
property for $24,500 and refused to refund Rafaeli any
of the $24,215 that exceeded the total tax debt,
penalties, interest, and costs. Id. The County called
the taking of the property a forfeiture, even though
the property was neither an instrumentality nor
product of criminal activity.

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