Tomorrow is the deadline
across most of Texas.
To file a formal protest over
your property appraisal.
People can do this online through your
county's central appraisal district.
Fighting the value of your property
is one of the things you can do to
slow this state skyrocketing taxes,
something we discussed with Dallas
County Judge Clay Jenkins.
Judge Jenkins welcome back to the program.
Appraisal rates are way up again,
which is great news if you're selling,
but so many of us are not selling.
I don't want my property taxes to go up,
which always seems to follow behind this.
Yeah, that's right. Well yeah,
the deadline to file your protest.
If you believe your house has been unfairly
appraised or praised too high is tomorrow,
May 16th on line by midnight.
Now the county,
as we've done for the last three years.
I'm very proud of this.
We have pushed for the no new tax rate,
So what that means is if property
values go up 24% this year as they
look like they are right now,
we'll lower the tax rate 24%.
So the average person will pay the same
amount to us as they did last year.
If your house went up more than that
average more than in the example of 24%,
you'll pay more less.
You'll actually have a savings.
Unfortunately,
not every taxing entity does that.
Some taxing entities raise
the the the actual rate.
When you figure in the appraisals
by two or three percent a year,
and so that takes a bite out of our pockets.
At a time when inflation is
high and we don't need that.
So what I want to tell you how to do
today in the brief time that we have
is how to get that your information
to the appraisal district have your
best chance to win your your fight.
Of course, the county taxes that
Texans pay all across the state
are only one portion and one
sliver of their property tax bill.
School taxes make up the most of that.
Obviously, you know you can only
control what happens at the county,
but do you ever reach out to
your counterparts in any of the
school district and say, hey,
we need to slow this thing down
because Texas is becoming unaffordable?
Had this year and you know
those are what do they say?
Well so they're private conversations.
There are a lot of school districts here.
I think most of them are looking
because of the funding formula.
Taking about 2 1/2 percent increase,
you know our governor is
talking about twice this week.
He's talked about defunding schools,
not paying for the kids who are.
Their parents are not documented,
even though the kid may be and taking
money out of the public schools for
a voucher program to let rich people
that's in their kids to private school
have a tax break that scares the
superintendents and the school boards
and makes it tougher to get them.
To lower that tax rate
at the end of the day is is.
Is Texas becoming unaffordable with the
seventh highest property taxes in the
nation's property taxes are way too high.
You know, don't want to be too partisan,
but the Republicans have done a lousy job.
Frankly, with lowering property taxes,
they need to do a lot more.
But what you can do is file your protest.
But it's got to be filed by
tomorrow at midnight and and don't.
If you just say, hey,
you said my house is worth 600,000.
I say it's worth 500,000 and you don't put
anything in there that's not going to work.
You need to have pictures or or comparables
or something to justify what you're saying,
and you know giving you some
examples of old appliances,
cracks in the walls, wood rot.
Maybe
you need a new roof,
maybe a roof is 15 or 20 years
old and you need a new roof. Tell them that.
Good points there judge.
Thanks for the reminder too about
tomorrow being the deadline to protest.
We appreciate your time as always. Thank you.