Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech ...

The IRS has announced a set of new policies designed to help taxpayers pay their back taxes and avoid liens (IR-2011-20). The changes to the IRS’ lien filing practices include: The IRS also announced ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched ...

If you’re a business owner and you fail to pay taxes, the government could slap your business with a tax lien. That’s a document filed by the Internal Revenue Service placing a legal claim against ...

In the guest column “Tax lien sales are inefficient, unjust” (Sept. 18th, Poughkeepsie Journal,) the writer suggests that the City of Poughkeepsie's method of enforcing delinquent taxes is unjust and ...

While the process for filing and perfecting a mechanic’s lien (also called a construction lien in certain states) varies from state to state, federal bankruptcy law applies to all states. As a result, ...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Land Gorilla, a leading provider of construction loan management software, today introduced a new tool that automates the generation of ...

Clean Up Lien Process On March 14, the Columbia Association received a report of vital importance to the lien payers of Columbia from the governance structure committee. The report reflected the ...

A version of this article was originally published in April 2013 and has now been updated. Effective April 1, 2013, project owners in North Carolina are now required to designate a Mechanic’s Lien ...