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What this page is: a persistent profile of how Howard County, Maryland runs its tax sale, independent of any single year's date. For the specific upcoming sale with a confirmable date, see the event page linked below.

Howard County, Maryland Tax Sale, County Hub

Howard County, Maryland runs a lien sale via Howard County online tax sale portal (taxsale.howardcountymd.gov). Held on an annual cycle; the specific date is set and published by the county each year rather than falling on a fixed statutory day.

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Sale type
lien
Platform
Howard County online tax sale portal (taxsale.howardcountymd.gov)
Bidding method
Sealed bid auction in which a bidder enters his/her highest acceptable bid for a tax certificate (spreadsheet upload).
Statutory maximum rate
6%/year owner-occupied; 18%/year non-owner-occupied (as designated by SDAT) (Md. Tax-Property Art. 14-820; county resolution)
Redemption period
Generally no complaint to foreclose the right of redemption may be filed until 6 months after the sale (Md. Tax-Property Art. 14-833).
Cadence
annual typical window

Legal structure & statutory basis

Md. Code, Tax-Property Article, Title 14

Each county/municipality sets its own annual tax sale date and local interest rate (within state-authorized bounds) under Title 14; Baltimore City and Montgomery County each publish their own annual notice.

County contact / official source

Howard County online tax sale portal (taxsale.howardcountymd.gov) is the office/platform of record for this sale.

https://taxsale.howardcountymd.gov/

Sale history

We currently track one active cycle for Howard County at a time and don't yet maintain a distinct archive of past sale events for this county -- when a cycle closes, the record here reflects the newest tracked cycle rather than an appended history. This is a known gap in the dataset, not a claim that Howard County has held only one sale.

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