Lt. Gov Dan Patrick wants to lower the age requirement for senior property tax exemptions from 65 to 55, a tax plan that could shave hundreds off of tax bills for more than a million homeowners.

Depending on the county you live in, the deadline to file a protest for residential property tax appraisals is days away. Many have until May 15 or 30 days after the notice of appraised value was sent ...

Last year, I warned you about a new property tax protest company — Ownwell of Austin — that charges a fee if it helps customers earn savings on homestead exemptions. These exemptions, which I call ...

Acting Assessor Pullen: “[T]ax appeal losses are something which are part of the cost of doing business and are budgeted for each year.” Credit: Thomas Breen photo After a three-year legal battle, ...

Scroll down to walk through what’s actually on your appraisal notice and review the information with a hypothetical example below. Your annual property appraisal notice should be mailed to you between ...

The Bexar County Appraisal District is set to start mailing out hundreds of thousands of notices to property owners in the coming weeks for anyone whose property has increased in appraisal value since ...

The share of homeowners who fought their tax bills increased from 2022 to 2024, according to a study of Texas properties Property taxes are intensely local, but the concern about their sharp upward ...

Watchdog Dave Lieber says appraisal protests can lower your tax bill, but you've gotta play Godzilla to the appraisal district's King Kong. Toho Co., Ltd. / AP Did you get your little “blue love note” ...

FIGURE HEAD: Buncombe County Tax Assessor Keith Miller will lead an $844,000 effort through the next fiscal year to improve the county's tax appraisal process. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County ...

It’s become a rite of spring in Texas: homeowners check the mail to find a notice from their appraisal district. They rip open the envelope, scan down to the “market value” figure, mouth agape at how ...