Why Hire Property Tax Protest in 2011?
We offer two shots at a reduction in the value on which your property taxes are based. We take no percentage and your risk is limited to the amount you pay up front.
- Appraisal Review Board:
- We’ll make the case under both Value Above Market and also under Inequality of Appraisal, which most people overlook.
- Under Value Above Market we can likely do better than you because we know what the Board members want and we have relevant data properly adjusted to their criteria.
- Inequality is complicated but essentially means if your neighbors' ratios of appraisal to market value are less than yours you get their ratio. It results in a further reduction – below Market Value. Those neighbors who protest and qualify get it; those who don't pay more than their fair share.
- Arbitration: We will take the case to Arbitration if you don’t get the value we think you deserve from the ARB.
- Last year our aggregate reductions from Arbitration were more than double those from the ARB on the same properties.
- We'll share the Arbitration risk with you.
- Your tax savings will most likely survive for more than one year.
- In 2010 the Tax Code provides the Chief Appraiser may not increase a 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.
- Why now?
- Values appear ready to bottom out; waiting to 2012 could cost you the chance to get a reduction that survives multiple years.
