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Originally Posted by thunderbear
When I had my wreck in 2003, my car was towed to a place. Well the owner called about a week later and said he needed it off his lot so my grandmother and me went to go pay the money and get the car. When we got there the owners wife said she had already sold it to a used car guy down the road. Which as fine by me it took care of the lot fees and I did'nt have to worry about towing it home. I went to the car dealer to get stuff out of the car. It was some clothes my Cds and my Valium the doctor gave me and the title to the car so I could have it transfered to the car dealer. He would'nt let me nowhere near my car and made me leave his lot. Well I forogt about all of that until today. I went to go put a truck my grandmother gave me in my name and found out that the IRS audited me for my wrecked car. Apparently the car still has an active title so I owe back taxes from 04 till now. Well my question is is'nt this like stealing? I never gave my permission to sell the car. And when they did I never signed anything giving the title to them. I did'nt even know they had sold it till it was too late. Now I have to pay all these back taxes before I can even get a vehicle.
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Hi Thunderbear, it sounds like what may have happened is that the owner of the lot filed a "mechanic's Lien" this document is often used when for example someone has a car repaired and does not come back to pay for the repair or claim the car. Also in your case if it was stored in a place that charges storage fees and those fees remain unpaid for any length of time. A mechanics lien is a legal claim that then allows the lot owner to sell the car to recover unpaid fees.
As for the back taxes, that is based on how the county showed the vehicle registered in the years it was concerning. Regardless of current owner, the former owner is always charged.
there is not a lot of legal recourse here, but you can check with a local attorney just in case. Sorry this happened to you. (((Thunderbear)))