Tax Appraisal Contest - Q2 2023 Update
Q4 2022 Update
The first step for a Tax Appraisal Case is to file a Notice of Protest with the County Appraisal District within 30 days of receiving the Notice of Appraisal on your property. The deadline to file a Notice of Protest has already passed for all counties for the 2022 Appraisal year. The next step for property owners who did timely file a Notice of Protest is to attend a scheduled ARB Panel Hearing regarding their protest. At this point, all ARB hearings have been conducted for the 2022 Appraisal year and Final Notice of Appraisals went out to all property owners who attended an ARB Panel Hearing. Under Texas Statutes, these steps must be completed in order for an individual to be able to file a lawsuit regarding their property appraisal value.
All statutory deadlines that are prerequisite to file a lawsuit regarding 2022 Property Appraisal Values have passed. For those individuals that BCA represents who timely filed a protest with their County Appraisal District, personally attended the ARB hearing, and got a Final Notice of Appraisal issued; BCA has filed a lawsuit on your behalf. The deadline for the County Appraisal District to answer the lawsuit is rapidly approaching. Once this deadline passes, the next phase is called initial disclosures. BCA will be contacting our clients who have lawsuits to get any missing information that is necessary to complete the initial disclosure process. Once the disclosures are completed, the lawsuit will proceed into the discovery phase. This is where BCA will be able to ask a myriad of questions to the County Appraisal District in an effort to ascertain where they got the inflated appraisal values from. If the County Appraisal District should make any settlement offers during the discovery process, BCA will immediately reach out to the client the offer pertains to.
All statutory deadlines that are prerequisite to file a lawsuit regarding 2022 Property Appraisal Values have passed. For those individuals that BCA represents who timely filed a protest with their County Appraisal District, personally attended the ARB hearing, and got a Final Notice of Appraisal issued; BCA has filed a lawsuit on your behalf. The deadline for the County Appraisal District to answer the lawsuit is rapidly approaching. Once this deadline passes, the next phase is called initial disclosures. BCA will be contacting our clients who have lawsuits to get any missing information that is necessary to complete the initial disclosure process. Once the disclosures are completed, the lawsuit will proceed into the discovery phase. This is where BCA will be able to ask a myriad of questions to the County Appraisal District in an effort to ascertain where they got the inflated appraisal values from. If the County Appraisal District should make any settlement offers during the discovery process, BCA will immediately reach out to the client the offer pertains to.
Q3 2022 Update
This litigation is in the early stages for the 2022 Tax Appraisal year. The first step for a Tax Appraisal Case is to file a Notice of Protest with the County Appraisal District within 30 days of receiving the Notice of Appraisal on your property. The deadline to file a Notice of Protest has already passed for Jefferson, Hardin, Chambers, and Orange Counties for the 2022 Appraisal year. The next step for property owners who did timely file a Notice of Protest is to attend a scheduled ARB Panel Hearing regarding their protest. These hearings will be conducted by the respective County Appraisal Districts over the next three months. Brent Coon and Associates Tax Appraisal clients will be hearing from us regarding property specific facts needed to prepare for the hearings. Once the hearings are concluded, we will contact our clients with any settlement offers made at the ARB Panel Hearings.