Taxes too high? Here's how to protest your Texas property appraisal

If you think your property's appraisal doesn’t reflect reality, you can file an appeal and seek to reduce your tax burden.

Nick Wagner / San Antonio Report

He plans to prove it with photographs of wood rot on the patio, a broken planter and a 1959 kitchen that needs remodeling. The taxable value and the current tax rate are used to calculate the amount of property taxes an owner must pay to the County Tax Assessor-Collector. “At the same time, I think you need to do some homework,” Hawkins said. “You just can’t go in here and say, ‘I think my taxes are too high.’”

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