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> 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.




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