USSC rules that government cannot make a profit from seized property.

Good. This should be something that people all along the political spectrum can agree with. Theft under the cover of law is still theft.

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was seized because she owed $15,000 in taxes and fees. But the county sold the home for $40,000 and kept all the proceeds.

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Soulless psychopaths. Holy shite.

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It’s SCOTUS not USSC

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cite me the law for that inefficiency (2 more letters)

It still blows my mind that you can pay cash for property, but if you fail to “pay the taxes” you lose the land that you own.

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 she owed $15,000 in taxes and fees.

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Most of that was fines and interest, not the actual tax. Let's not celebrate her. She was a deadbeat taxpayer. She shouldn't have lost her profit in the property, but she ignored every attempt to settle the bill and allowed it to go on for years before the property was finally seized by the court.

So the house was sold for $40,000, how much was it actually worth? Tax sales on real property tend to be really shady. This may have been a $175,000 house sold for $40,000 in order to pay a $15,000 bill.

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She's 94 years-old - almost certainly on a fixed income - hard to understand how communities can donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to go-fund-me for all kinds of stuff but no one stepped forward for this - there's never enough money to satisfy the government. Pure theft.

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In Texas, after age 65 you can opt to not pay property taxes, and they'll take it out of the estate when you pass away.

Of course, they also charge interest, which accrues over the entire time. Bitches.

At the will reading I can hear the attorneys, "And I bequeath the house to my rotten son, Jimmy, who never called, never sent a birthday card or attended family gatherings."

Jimmy - (pointing his finger at his two brothers and a sister) "Ha! Suck it losers!"

Attorney - "While the value of the property is currently estimated at $1.2 million, there is an outstanding loan amount on the property of $182,000..."

Jimmy - "Hey, that's cool. I'll sell the house and be rolling in dough. Y'all can suck it!"

Attorney - "...and a tax lien of $1.1 million."

"The rest of the estate was rolled up into a non-revocable, tax-exempt trust invested in life-insurance policies with non-taxable payout receipts of $5 million each to Bob, Eddie and Sarah, the other three heirs."

Jimmy - "What the frick?"

Everyone else, "Suck it, Jimmy"

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Will it impact civil forfeiture theft

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Doubtful, but I bet someone will try to use this ruling against it, soon.

Replying to @billybinion
Geraldine is far from the only victim. The stories are nauseating.

At 76 years old, Bennie Coleman lost his DC home over a $134 bill. The gov't sold the $197,000 house & kept the profit.

For months, Bennie slept on the porch—with dementia—thinking he'd locked himself out.

Replying to @billybinion
Then there's Tawanda Hall, who fell $900 behind on a property-tax payment plan for her Michigan home. After penalties, she owed $22,642.

The gov't seized her $300,000 house, sold it, and kept the profit.

The surplus totaled $286,000. This is not a joke.