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Travis County Property Tax Protest
Commercial and residential property tax protest in Austin and across Travis County. We file with the Travis Central Appraisal District, build the evidence, and handle the hearings. No savings, no fee.
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Protesting Property Taxes in Austin and Travis County
Austin values rose quickly, and parts of the market have since come down. Office and apartment owners have faced a different problem: more space than tenants. When a market softens, the value doesn’t follow on its own. The evidence has to show it.
Office.
Austin office owners compete with a large supply of available space, including sublease space, and often need free rent and larger tenant improvement packages to sign leases. An income model that assumes stabilized occupancy and market rent without those costs overstates value. We build the model from your actual leasing.
Multifamily.
New apartment supply has pushed concessions up and effective rents down at many Austin-area properties. What matters is economic vacancy: concessions, bad debt, and loss to lease, not only empty units. We document all of it.
Retail.
Center performance varies block by block. Tenant rollover, dark space, and co-tenancy problems are value issues, and they belong in the protest.
Residential.
Homes, rentals, second homes, and new builds. Sales evidence from the right period, and from truly comparable properties, matters more in a falling market than in a rising one.
How Travis protests run.
Informal meetings with TCAD’s appraisers happen online, and formal hearings can run by video. Most of our Travis cases go on to a formal hearing. Because everything runs remotely, and you rarely see the same appraiser twice, the evidence has to stand on its own. We build ours the way the district builds its values, using the same kinds of adjustments, so the panel can compare the two line by line.
How to Protest Property Taxes in Travis County
Every protest follows the same path. Here is how it runs with the Travis Central Appraisal District.
Read your notice.
The Travis Central Appraisal District values your property as of January 1 and mails notices of appraised value in the spring. The notice shows the value you’re protesting and your deadline.
File by the deadline.
May 15, or 30 days after the notice is mailed, whichever is later. A protest filed on time keeps every later option open.
Get the district’s evidence.
You’re entitled to see the evidence the district will use before your hearing. It shows how the district reached its number and where to challenge it.
Meet with the district’s appraiser.
Most protests start with an informal meeting with a Travis Central Appraisal District appraiser. Many settle here.
Go before the Travis Appraisal Review Board.
If the informal meeting doesn’t resolve it, a panel of local residents hears the protest and issues a written order.
Appeal further if needed.
Within 60 days of receiving the order, you can request binding arbitration or file suit in district court.
Or sign up, and we handle every step, every year. You don’t have to attend.
Travis County Property Tax Reduction Results
Residential
- Notice value
- $3,052,538
- Final value
- $2,309,494
Residential
- Notice value
- $3,309,999
- Final value
- $2,782,785
Convenience store
- Notice value
- $521,720
- Final value
- $303,786
Residential
- Notice value
- $533,551
- Final value
- $423,000
Residential
- Notice value
- $630,224
- Final value
- $530,789
Commercial land tract
- Notice value
- $431,244
- Final value
- $366,563
Past results don’t guarantee future outcomes. Every property is different.
Travis County Property Tax Protest FAQs
How do I protest property taxes in Travis County?
File a protest with the Travis Central Appraisal District by the deadline, request the district’s evidence, and present your case at the informal meeting and, if needed, before the Travis Appraisal Review Board. Or sign up, and we handle every step.
Is all of Austin in Travis County?
No. Parts of Austin sit in Williamson County and Hays County. The county your parcel is in decides which appraisal district values it. We protest in all three.
My value went down this year. Should I still protest?
Often, yes. A lower value can still be above what the property would sell for. What matters is how the value compares with the market on January 1, not with last year’s number.
When is the Travis County protest deadline?
May 15, or 30 days after the notice is mailed, whichever is later.
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