An Okanagan township that sold a man's property at a tax auction without any notice of the sale or the steps necessary to prevent it deserves to face "significant consequences," according to a B.C. judge.

Anthony Brent Morgan owed about $6,700 in property taxes on his land just west of Armstrong when the Township of Spallumcheen put it up for auction in September 2017, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment .

The vacant lot, which Morgan had purchased for $160,000 seven years earlier, sold for just $11,300. Morgan was not told about the sale, or the fact he had one year to redeem his loss and save the property by paying the money he owed, the judgment says.

By the time Morgan discovered what had happened, it was too late.

According to the judgment, the township acknowled

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