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Published on: 9/28/2009
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With interest and penalties, a homeowner can end up paying 30 percent interest on amounts greater than $10,000, said Vincent A. Belluscio, executive director of the Tax Collectors and Treasurers Association of New Jersey, a trade group.
If you fail to make the full payment to the lien holder after two years, he can foreclose and kick you out of your home.
"It happens every day," Belluscio said.
Some delinquent taxpayers, burdened by an ever-growing tax debt, sinking home values and bad credit, just end up walking away from their properties, Belluscio said.