Possibly, but first they'll file a tax lien, allowing them to garnish your wages or bank account etc., and make your credit record radioactive until it's lifted. If you've ignored a court summons, that might result in an arrest warrant providing for you to be taken into custody at a police stop.

In general, you need to owe them quite a lot of money before they will go to the bother of looking for you, which is expensive and risky; it's a lot easier to just publicly flag you as a tax debtor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_lien

> Possibly, but first they'll file a tax lien, allowing them to garnish your wages or bank account etc., and make your credit record radioactive until it's lifted. If you've ignored a court summons, that might result in an arrest warrant providing for you to be taken into custody at a police stop.

Actually, what they do is evict you and sell "your" house.

That's what happened to the previous owner of my house.

Yes, that could happen...after they're granted a lien on the property because of the amount owed. Getting evicted is one possible outcome among many, whereas a lien is pretty typical and often sufficient to recover what's owed.

And if the previous owner of your house had refused to leave before the final eviction date, police officers would have come to remove em.

Um, no. They will take your stuff and sell it. If you then try to use said stuff, men with guns may come for using someone else's stuff.

Maybe where you live.

Where outside the US do you live?

Hint: the people who will arrive with the guns are police or possibly people who works for the IRS/your tax authorities.

Nobody arrives with guns. That only happens when you are wanted for other crimes and the Feds are combining those charges with tax evasion. Tax evasion is also a different charge than simply being delinquent with your taxes.