Calhoun County, AL tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Calhoun County, AL tax sale, one of 2,553 counties in 30 states. Alabama sells tax lien certificates paying up to 12%. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Jul 27, 2026.
How tax lien sales work in Calhoun County, seat of Anniston: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Alabama tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- Not scheduled.
- Format
- GovEase
- Registration
- Bidding is online through GovEase.
On this page
How Calhoun County sells delinquent taxes
From lien to deed
Alabama holds no routine county tax deed auction under the tax lien regime. A holder of all the sold, unexpired, outstanding tax lien certificates on a parcel may file an action in circuit court to foreclose the right to redeem and quiet title, but only once four years have passed since the tax lien auction and no later than ten years after it. The holder must mail a notice of intent at least 30 days and no more than 180 days before filing, to the owner of record, every recorded lienholder, the tax collecting official, and anyone else who may reasonably be believed to hold an interest.
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Calhoun County Revenue Commission, Collection Department (Revenue Commissioner Tim Hodges). The county site states: "In accordance with Title 40, Chapter 10, Code of Ala. 1975 (§40-10-180 through 200), the Calhoun County Tax Collecting official has authority to auction and sell tax liens on properties for which ad valorem property taxes are delinquent."
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Annually in May.
- Registration
- Bidding is online through GovEase.
- Next expected
- between March 1 and June 15, 2027 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidding is online through GovEase. Per GovEase's Alabama guidance, "all new bidders must create a bidder profile through the GovEase Auction Portal", then "add auctions" for each county they want to bid in, and "Bidders will be required to electronically submit county-specific registration documents to the county via the GovEase Auction Portal." Registration approval comes from the county tax office, not GovEase, and "Each county may have different registration requirements." For most Alabama counties "ALL payments and payment arrangements MUST be made through the county tax office." Bidding is a rate bid-down: "the bid you place is the lowest interest per annum you are willing to accept on the face value amount", with "The maximum bid is 12% simple interest per annum, prorated monthly. The lowest acceptable bid is 0% per annum", and "The winner is determined by the lowest interest bid placed." Calhoun County did not publish a registration deadline or deposit amount on its own site, so confirm both with the Collection Department at 256-241-2840.
Sale format and venue
Calhoun County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Calhoun County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid.
Get the advertised list
Use Delinquent Tax Listing (tax lien auction list) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Not scheduled. Bidding runs on GovEase; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Circuit court of the county; the circuit clerk executes the deed as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Calhoun County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Delinquent Tax Listing (tax lien auction list). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Bidding is online through GovEase. Per GovEase's Alabama guidance, "all new bidders must create a bidder profile through the GovEase Auction Portal", then "add auctions" for each county they want to bid in, and "Bidders will be required to electronically submit county-specific registration documents to the county via the GovEase Auction Portal." Registration approval comes from the county tax office, not GovEase, and "Each county may have different registration requirements." For most Alabama counties "ALL payments and payment arrangements MUST be made through the county tax office." Bidding is a rate bid-down: "the bid you place is the lowest interest per annum you are willing to accept on the face value amount", with "The maximum bid is 12% simple interest per annum, prorated monthly. The lowest acceptable bid is 0% per annum", and "The winner is determined by the lowest interest bid placed." Calhoun County did not publish a registration deadline or deposit amount on its own site, so confirm both with the Collection Department at 256-241-2840.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Alabama due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold certificates
Liens that draw no bid at the auction stay with the county. At any time after the auction date the tax collecting official may sell an unsold lien at private sale for no less than all taxes, interest, penalties, costs and fees due, plus any amount owed to a prior certificate holder. The rate is agreed with the tax collecting official and cannot exceed 12 percent, so over-the-counter liens often carry the full rate. Ask the county for its list of unsold liens.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Alabama calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Calhoun County Revenue Commission
256-241-2840 (Collection Department), 256-241-2855 (Assessing), 256-241-2870 (Appraisal)
1702 Noble Street, Suite 104 & 106, Anniston, AL 36201
Official websiteCounty notes
- County seat is Anniston; the Revenue Commission sits in the Ken Joiner Administration Building at 1702 Noble Street.
- Revenue Commissioner is Tim Hodges. Office hours posted as "8:00am - 4:30pm Monday-Friday, Excluding Holidays". General office email is revenue@calhouncounty.org.
- Calhoun County runs the Article 7 tax lien auction (bid-down interest, 12% ceiling on GovEase), not the older Article 1 tax sale. Effective with the 2018 tax collection year.
- The auction list and the auction notice live on the county's online tax system at altags.com/calhoun_revenue, not on calhouncounty.org. The county's own revenue page only links out to it.
- WARNING for data assembly: calhouncounty.org serves a soft 404. Any missing path returns HTTP 200 with the county homepage body (15,620 bytes). Two widely cited URLs, https://www.calhouncounty.org/revenue/taxlienauction.html and https://www.calhouncounty.org/news/taxlienauctionsaleinfo.pdf, do NOT exist; both return the homepage. Do not cite either. The only real county tax lien content is the "Information pertaining to the Tax Lien Auction" block and the Collection Department section on https://www.calhouncounty.org/revenue/ itself.
- No registration deadline, deposit amount, or premium/overbid rule was published on any county page. Those fields were deliberately left unstated rather than guessed.
- The posted auction date of 5/5/2026 is for the 2025 tax year and has already passed as of this research. The recurring May timing is the durable fact; the specific date should be re-checked each spring on the delinquent listing page.
- State-held "sold to state" inventory for Calhoun is transcript file WWW_TRANS_11.PDF on the Alabama Department of Revenue site (verified, 112 KB PDF). ADOR notes transcripts are updated weekly and do not contain physical addresses.
Alabama rules
- Redemption
- A tax lien can be redeemed at any time before the circuit court enters judgment in a foreclosure action, and the holder cannot file that action until four years after the auction or the tax official's private sale. If the holder does not commence a foreclosure action within ten years of the auction or sale, the certificate expires and the lien becomes void. A certificate holder has no right to enter or possess the property, make repairs, or charge rents before it receives the circuit clerk's deed. In a county that uses the Article 1 property tax sale instead, land sold to a purchaser other than the state may be redeemed within three years from the date of sale, and land bid in for the state may be redeemed at any time before title passes out of the state.
- Surplus proceeds
- In a court-ordered auction the proceeds pay the cost of the auction first, then the certificate holder up to the redemption amount plus taxes it paid before filing and the court-allowed costs and fees. Any surplus goes to the owner or the owner's heirs or successors as the court determines, and Alabama's unclaimed property law applies to whatever is left. In a county that instead uses the Article 1 property tax sale, the excess over the decree is held in a separate county account for three years for a party who redeems, and Section 40-10-28 opens later windows in which the owner or a redeeming party can claim it.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.
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