La. Revenue and Taxation § 47:2153
| "Year | Ward | Sect. | Ass. # | Property # | Notice # |
| ********PLEASE NOTE******** | [NAME OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION] |
| *By law your taxes are delinquent after December thirty-first. The law requires interest be charged as follows: A flat rate of one percent (1%) per month on delinquent ad valorem taxes. | |
| *If monies for payment of taxes are in escrow, please forward tax notice to your mortgage company. | |
| *If a receipt is requested, enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope along with your payment. | |
| *Please notify the sheriff's office or the assessor's office with all address changes. | |
| *For questions about assessed value or millages contact:Assessor's Office:Property Tax Dept: | |
| *Payment may be made online at __________________________ | |
| *[DATE OF NOTICE]. If taxes are not paid within twenty days after this date, the political subdivision will proceed to sell tax sale title to the property at [list location of the tax sale] beginning on [list first day of sale]. You will have the right to pay the amounts due until the day before the actual sale. If tax sale title to the property is sold, you will have three years [or other applicable redemptive period] from the date of the filing of the tax sale certificate in which to redeem the property according to law, but in order to redeem, you will be required to pay a 5% penalty and 1% per month on the amounts past due together with other costs in accordance with law. |
| Total Assessed Value Tax Distributions | Millages | Homestead Exemption | Taxes and other Statutory Impositions Due | Assessment Information |
| [add taxing districts] | [add amount of tax due each district] | Total Assessed Value | ||
| Property Description | ||||
| Total Statutory Impositions Due | ||||
| Interest | ||||
| Costs | ||||
| Total |
[Name of Tax Collector and Address]
| Total Statutory Impositions Due |
| Interest |
| Cost |
| Total |
[Tax Collector Name]
| YEAR | WARD | SECT | ASS.# | PROPERTY | NOTICE # |
Name of Tax Debtor
[address]
Make checks payable to: [Tax Collector Name]
Mail this portion of tax bill and payment to:[address]"
TAX SALE PARTY NOTICE OF TAX SALE
[Date]
[Name]
[Address]
[City], [ST] [Zip]
RE:Tax Bill Number:
Property: [Property Address]
[Description of Property Abbr]
YOU HAVE A PUBLICLY RECORDED INTEREST IN THE ABOVE REFERENCED PROPERTY. PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY.
The property taxes for the above referenced property were not paid. In accordance with the notice requirement contained in Article VII, Section 25 of the Louisiana Constitution, you are hereby notified that if the delinquent property taxes are not paid within twenty days of the date of this notice, the property will be sold at tax sale in accordance with law.
AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE REDEMPTIVE PERIOD, THE PROPERTY CANNOT BE REDEEMED. CONTINUED POSSESSION OF THE PROPERTY DOES NOT EXTEND THE REDEMPTIVE PERIOD.
Please contact [name of tax collector] if you believe that you received this notice in error, have sold or transferred this property, or for further information or assistance.
Thank you,
Tax Collector of [name of political subdivision]
[Tax collector phone number]
THIS NOTICE CONCERNS ONLY THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE "REGARDING" PORTION OF THIS LETTER; the address of that property may or may not be the same as the mailing address of this notice.
If your recorded interest in this property is no longer valid or enforceable, you may remove it by visiting the office of the recorder of mortgages and conveyances located at [mortgage and conveyance office address]."
"DELINQUENT TAX LIST
______________________________ vs. Delinquent Tax Debtors
(insert appropriate taxing bodies)
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the State of Louisiana, I will sell, at ____________________, within the legal hours for judicial sales beginning at __________ o'clock a.m. on __________, the __________ day of __________, ____, and continuing on each succeeding legal day, until said sales are completed, tax sale title to all immovable property on which taxes are now due to ___________________________, to enforce collection of taxes
(insert affected taxing bodies) assessed in the year ____, together with interest thereon from January 1, ____, at the rate of one percent (1%) per month until paid and all costs. The names of said delinquent tax debtors, the amount of statutory impositions due, including any due for prior years, and the immovable property assessed to each to be offered for sale are as follows: (Insert names of delinquent tax debtors in alphabetical order, the amount of statutory impositions due, including any due for prior years on each specific piece of property, and the description of each specific piece of immovable property to be offered for sale.)
On the day of sale I will sell a tax sale title to such portions of the property as each tax debtor will point out and, in case the debtor will not point out sufficient property, I will at once and without further delay sell the least quantity as undivided interests of said property of any tax debtor which any bidder will buy for the amount of the statutory impositions for which the sale is made, together with interest and costs due by said tax debtor. The sale will be without appraisement, for cash or other payment method acceptable to the tax collector, in legal tender money of the United States, and the tax sale title to property sold will be redeemable at any time during the applicable redemptive period by paying the price given, including costs and five percent (5%) penalty thereon, with interest at the rate of one percent (1%) per month until redeemed."
La. Revenue and Taxation § 47:2153