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Hunter Biden was hit with a $450,000 lien in July over delinquent state income taxes, which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible income. Last year, he told the court judge in his paternity case that he was broke and unemployed. The younger Biden owed $238,562.76 in state income taxes from 2017 and $215,328.16 in state income taxes from 2018, according to records from the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue. The District of Columbia filed a $453,890 lien against him on July 9. The lien is the latest in a series of substantial tax...

Moving to quash a conservative GOP insurrection, Assembly Speaker-designee John Hambrick on Saturday harshly rebuked Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, telling her to stop playing “childish games” and undermining him by insisting she’s still Republican majority leader. Hambrick said in an email to Fiore that he had full authority as the elected leader of the Assembly Republican Caucus to remove her as majority leader and as chair of the Assembly Taxation Committee. He said he removed her last month for insubordination and for how she’s handling a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over unpaid payroll taxes for her home health care...

CARSON CITY — Las Vegas Republican lawmaker Michele Fiore, a lightning rod in an ongoing Assembly GOP power struggle, said Tuesday she is fully in compliance with the Internal Revenue Service over more than $1 million in tax liens against her home health care businesses. In her first comments on the controversy, Fiore appeared on the Alan Stock radio show on KDWN in Las Vegas, saying her actual active liens total less than $200,000. Liens dating back to 2003 had previously been resolved, she said. Fiore said her lien problems stemmed from a dishonest bookkeeper, who she said is facing...

The MSM, the Democrats and Obama's campaign are making hay about Joe the Plumber's tax Lien, well Obama's Campaign Treasurer, Martin Nesbitt, has tax liens and so do his companies. http://www.patterico.com/2008/10/16/la-times-joe-the-plumber-has-liens1/

If I understand correctly, a third party can find properties for which taxes are owed, and on which liens have been placed by e.g. school district, city or county. Do I understand that if that third party pays the taxes, it's possible that the third party can gain title? Has anyone had experience with this kind of investing? I understand the possibility of other liens that take precedence, e.g. IRS tax liens. How does one address this issue, and what other pitfalls are there? How different is this from buying a foreclosure? Thanks.