Welcome to the Tax Claim Office
The Tax Claim Bureau is responsible for collection of delinquent real estate taxes for 20 municipalities in Monroe County, plus the four school districts.
The Monroe County Tax Claim Bureau was created when the Pennsylvania Real Estate Tax Sale Law (Act 542 of 1947) was enacted. The purpose of Act 542 is to promptly return properties with delinquent real estate taxes to the productive tax rolls. The act also provides a uniform system of eliminating title disputes and solving problems from the previous system.
The Tax Claim Bureau receives approximately nine thousand (9,000) delinquent returns each year. The general activities that take place in the Tax Claim Bureau are collections, tax sales, and distribution of paid taxes.
Contact Information
Monroe County
Administrative Building
One Quaker Plaza, Room 104
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
Phone: (570) 517-3172
Fax: (570) 517-3857
Hours: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Monday-Friday
Closed all major holidays
Payment Agreements (Agreement to Stay Sale) will ONLY be done during the hours of 8:30 am - 4:15 pm.
ADVERTISING OF UPSET TAX SALE
Notice of Sale: To be published in the Pocono Record once on August 9, 2024 and once in the Monroe County Legal Reporter on August 9, 2024.
To avoid the advertising of your name and property, payment in full of the 2022 taxes must be received by 6/28/24. This will also stop the Constable from coming to your property.
Important News
Tax Claim Office
Our Services
The Upset Sale is scheduled for each September and includes properties that are two years delinquent in taxes will be auctioned. Pre-registration is required!
Judicial Sale is held the following year for only those properties that have been exposed but not sold at an Upset Sale. Pre-registration is required!
Properties remaining unsold from the Upset Sale,and Judicial Sale, are placed on the Repository Sale list. At this point anyone, with the exception of the property owner, can bid on the property.
Overbids comprise of money paid at tax sale acutions and are monies above and beyond what the taxes and fees were at the time of the sale.