Macon County Collector Rhonda Anno will hold a tax certification sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24, at the south front door of the courthouse, 101 E. Washington St.
The 2026 tax sale list, dated July 13 and signed by Anno, cites RSMo 140.170. It names 70 parcels in Macon and around the county, with owners as they appear on the land tax books.
Each tract shows an aggregate total of taxes, penalty, interest and sale costs, plus $60 for advertising and $10.98 for a certified letter. Those extra fees are the same on every parcel. The aggregates run from $31.54 to $186,047.78. Combined, the 70 totals are $309,281.29 before the advertising and letter charges.
A tax certification sale is the collector’s statutory way to collect unpaid property taxes. It is not a city foreclosure and it is not a mortgage auction. When a parcel’s taxes go unpaid, the collector advertises the land and, on the fourth Monday in August, offers it at the courthouse door. Anyone who pays the collector in full before the sale can keep that parcel off the block. If it is offered and sold, the purchaser pays the amount due on the notice. What happens after a sale, including any right the owner has to redeem the property, is set by state law. This story is not legal advice. The collector’s office is the place to get a payoff and to ask what redemption would cost.
Failure to receive a tax bill does not erase the tax. Call 660-385-3214 for a current payoff. Parcels can come off the list if they are paid before 10 a.m. Aug. 24.