Alexandria
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Texas
In our county (Williamson), we receive our property tax bills in April and have until May 31 to file a protest (due to appraisal too high, incorrect info about the property, etc.). After May 31, the property tax is set in stone, as it were.
When we received our tax bill last April, we thought it was a little high, but nothing looked protestable. Last month (December), my husband happened to find out that we could look at our property tax bill online. The property tax bill was very detailed about what they based our appraisal on - and this detailed information was not included on our bill. One item was incorrect and could have lowered our property tax bill. It listed that we have a concrete pool. We have a vinyl-lined in-ground pool, which is worth considerably less than a concrete pool. If we had known this information, we would have protested last May.
I informed the appraisal district office about this error and that we didn't protest because we weren't given this information in time to protest. The clerk said tough beans, it's too late to change anything for the 2005 tax bill.
Can we sue them to get our 2005 property taxes lowered, based on this incomplete information?
In our county (Williamson), we receive our property tax bills in April and have until May 31 to file a protest (due to appraisal too high, incorrect info about the property, etc.). After May 31, the property tax is set in stone, as it were.
When we received our tax bill last April, we thought it was a little high, but nothing looked protestable. Last month (December), my husband happened to find out that we could look at our property tax bill online. The property tax bill was very detailed about what they based our appraisal on - and this detailed information was not included on our bill. One item was incorrect and could have lowered our property tax bill. It listed that we have a concrete pool. We have a vinyl-lined in-ground pool, which is worth considerably less than a concrete pool. If we had known this information, we would have protested last May.
I informed the appraisal district office about this error and that we didn't protest because we weren't given this information in time to protest. The clerk said tough beans, it's too late to change anything for the 2005 tax bill.
Can we sue them to get our 2005 property taxes lowered, based on this incomplete information?
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