Your first stop for county tax sale information

Tax Sale Roll.

How each state’s tax sale works · and where an owner goes to stop one

Lafayette County, Florida

Hybrid (certificate, then deed)

County office: Lafayette County Tax Collector

If it is your own property

In many states the property can be redeemed by paying what is owed — in some states even after a sale — and payment plans may be available. The rules and the deadlines are set by statute and they are short: consult the statute and the county office named here about where you actually stand.
Pay or redeem
Lafayette County Tax Collector — no link is recorded here; contact the county office directly.
Surplus funds after a sale
Lafayette County Clerk of Court

The sale, stage by stage

Tax certificate sale

Florida statute directs the county tax collector to hold an annual tax certificate sale, beginning on or before June 1 or the 60th day after the date of delinquency, whichever is later (Fla. Stat. § 197.402(3)). What is sold is a certificate — a lien for the delinquent taxes — not the property; each certificate goes to the bidder demanding the lowest interest rate (Fla. Stat. § 197.432).

No official county link is recorded here for this stage. The office to ask is generally the County Tax Collector in Florida.

Tax deed sale

If the taxes remain unpaid, a certificate holder may later apply for a tax deed, and the property itself may then be sold at a public tax deed auction (Fla. Stat. § 197.502). Which county office conducts that auction varies by county.

Lafayette County Tax Collector — the county’s own page for this sale.

The county’s own page is the place to look for when the next sale is scheduled.

Everything above links out to the government source; the county’s own page is the current word.

Entry last checked July 2026.