I was thinking property taxes (where, incidentally, the threshold seems to be lower), not income taxes.
Even less likely. It's substantially harder for states or towns to seize residential property than it is for the IRS. Commercial property, sure. The legal exemptions for a building one is actually living in is about 10000 pages long, in some states it's neigh impossible to seize property until the owner sells it or dies, at which point the liens recover the debt.
You may be thinking of *bank foreclosure* auctions which are far, far, far, more common.
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