Where can I find delinquent tax notices?
When will they be available?
What size are they?

Hundreds of Public Notice advertisements are published in the daily/weekly editions of Arizona newspapers. Until now, you probably were limited to reading them in your local newspapers. You may have missed something valuable in another town, even if you pay for a clipping service.

The newspapers of Arizona, through its Arizona Newspapers Association, joined together to post the public notices, including Delinquent Tax Lists, from each edition to a central internet database.

There are two ways to search the database: Manual Search and Smart Search. Manual search will allow you to browse, for free, notices published within the last 90 days. Smart Search is a subscription system that automatically emails to you links to the notices you are looking for as soon as they are published and uploaded.

Where can I find them?

Our Public Notice database is divided into two date-specific groups. The first (current notices) includes notices published in the most recent 90 days. The second (archived notices) are notices older than 90 days.

Most Delinquent Tax notices are published in January and February. That means if it now is May or later in the year you have to search the Archive data base.

To find delinquent tax notices, click on the "Manual Search" button, select your Arizona county and type tax lien in the "exact phrase" search box. Click "Go" and they should appear for your viewing pleasure.

The newspapers publishing the notices in 2009 are:

COUNTY	NEWSPAPER	DATE PUBLISHED	POSTED YET?
Apache	White Mountain Independent (Show Low)	1/29/2010
Coconino	Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff)	1/29/2010
Cochise	San Pedro Valley News-Sun	2/3/2010
Gila	Arizona Silverbelt	2/3/2010 2/10/2010
Graham	Eastern Arizona Courier (Safford)	2/10/2010
Greenlee	The Copper Era (Clifton)	1/27/2010
LaPaz	Parker Pioneer	1/20/2010
Maricopa (in 11 Parts)	Arizona Business Gazette (Phoenix)	1/21/2010
Mohave (in 4 Parts)	Bullhead City Bee	1/22/2010
Navajo	Holbrook Tribune-News	1/22/2010 1/29/2010
Pima	The Daily Territorial (Tucson)	2/10/2010
Pinal (in 5 parts)	Florence Reminder	2/4/2010
Santa Cruz	Nogales International	2/11/2010
Yavapai	The Daily Courier (Prescott)	1/19/2010
Yuma	The Sun (Yuma)	2/8/2010

When are the notices available?

They generally are published in the last half of January or the first half of February. As soon as the newspaper prints them, they also upload them to this database.

What size are they?

Notices from smaller counties are large but manageable. Notices from the more populous counties are gargantuan. Those larger counties are sent to the database in segments with the first few paragraphs of the each segment giving you the key to the data.