When a sale is ordered in a suit pursuant to the preceding sections, and is made and reported, the clerk and master shall report what public taxes are a lien upon any tract so sold in favor of the state, county, or any municipality, and the court shall see that this is done. Any such taxes, if the sale is confirmed, shall be paid out of the proceeds of such sale before such delinquent assessments are paid.
Taxes to be reported and first paid out of proceeds of sales
Tenn. Code Ann. § 69-5-825, under Levy and Collection of Assessments.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 69-5-825