MCL 205.29 — Taxes, interest, and penalties as lien

(1) Taxes administered under this act, together with the interest and penalties on those taxes, shall be a lien in favor of the state against all property and rights of property, both real and personal, tangible and intangible, owned at the time the lien attaches, or afterwards acquired by any person liable for the tax, to secure the payment of the tax. The lien shall attach to the property from and after the date that any report or return on which the tax is levied is required to be filed with the department and shall continue for 7 years after the date of attachment. The lien may be extended for another 7 years by refiling pursuant to subsection (2) if the refiling is made within 6 months prior to the expiration date of the original 7-year period.
(2) The lien imposed by this act shall take precedence over all other liens and encumbrances, except bona fide liens recorded before the date the lien under this act is recorded. However, bona fide liens recorded before the lien under this act is recorded shall take precedence only to the extent of disbursements made under a financing arrangement before the forty-sixth day after the date of the tax lien recording, or before the person making the disbursements had actual knowledge of a tax lien recording under this act, whichever is earlier. A lien shall be recorded and discharged in accordance with Act No. 203 of the Public Acts of 1968, as amended, being sections 211.681 to 211.687 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
(3) A purchaser or succeeding purchaser of property, from a taxpayer in other than the ordinary course of business, against which a lien has been properly recorded pursuant to subsection (2) shall be personally liable for the unpaid taxes which are due on the lien. The purchaser's liability shall be limited to the value of the property less any proceeds which were applied to balances due on secured interests which are superior to the lien recorded under subsection (2).