Patent ID: 7584129

Claim:
A method for locating and collecting previously undetectable and uncollected governmental tax revenues in lien status utilizing the real property escrow process, comprising the steps of: a) Performing a computerized tax lien search during a real property escrow process, wherein such tax lien search is performed on a party who has recorded a lien against the subject property in escrow, which party is other than a regulated financial institution, and which party has no real property ownership relationship or interest in the subject property with the subject property owner, which search results in a return of tax lien information as to the existence or non-existence of any outstanding governmental tax lien against said party; b) withholding, by computer, and upon discovery of said outstanding governmental tax lien, the amount of tax lien due by said party against said party's payoff demand made against subject property in escrow, by a financial institution, settlement agent, or other authorized party; c) remitting, directly or indirectly, with or without an intermediary, to said at least one governmental taxing authority by said financial institution, settlement agent, or other authorized party, proceeds from the escrow of said subject property transaction which have been diverted from said party's payoff demand made against the subject property in escrow in order to satisfy said party's outstanding tax lien obligation to said at least one governmental taxing authority; d) submitting by computer for recording by said at least one governmental taxing authority, directly or indirectly, with or without an intermediary, either a Satisfaction of Lien against said party in the event of a full payoff, or an Amended Tax Lien in the event a balance continues to be due the said at least one governmental taxing authority by said party; e) submitting by computer for recording by said at least one governmental taxing authority, directly or indirectly, with or without an intermediary, a Full Satisfaction of Judgment as the Assignee of Record regarding the lien said party had recorded against said subject property owner, which lien had attached to said property owner's real property, and from which escrow proceeds said at least one governmental taxing authority receives payment, with the further notation on said Full Satisfaction of Judgment as Assignee of Record that the assignment is not to exceed the amount of proceeds recovered from subject real property transaction, whether such proceeds satisfy said party's tax lien obligation in full or not.