Why Protest?
The short answer is to ensure you pay only your fair share, not more.
- Is your Value Over Market? Chances are it is. Appraisal districts tend to follow the market up more diligently than they follow it down.
- Avoid "value creep". It's what happens over time when small increases are ignored or your property's taxable value doesn't follow the market down. Like black mold, it can grow without notice and it's best nipped early.
- Inequality of Appraisal – you won’t get the reduction unless you protest. Whole neighborhoods qualify under the districts' mass appraisal techniques. Those neighbors who protest get it, those who don't don't.
- Qualify for Arbitration. Your odds in Arbitration are even more favorable than at the Appraisal Review Board.
- It's risk free. In 2010 the Property Tax Code provides the chief appraiser may not increase your market value in the year following a successful protest "unless the increase is supported by substantial evidence." The burden of proof is on the chief appraiser. Savings this year are likely to last more than one year and future increases, if any, will be from a lower base. So . . . why not protest? It's a no lose proposition. You'll pay only your fair share of Texas property taxes, not more. Guaranteed.











