A Texas-only protest service. We file your annual property-tax protest and attend the informal review. Our fee is 25% of what we save you — and zero if we save you nothing. No subscription. No surprise charges. No auto-renewal.
We'll find your parcel and estimate your 2027 tax savings instantly. No login needed.
Texas property values jumped substantially over the last five years, and the County Appraisal Districts (CADs) raised assessments in lockstep. Most owners overpay because the CAD's mass-appraisal model doesn't know your roof needs work, your foundation shifted, or that the comp it used three blocks over sold under duress. Every Texas property owner has the right to file a protest under Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41. The deadline is May 15 (or 30 days after your Notice of Appraised Value arrives, whichever is later). Miss it and you wait until next year.
We file your Notice of Protest before May 15 with the right grounds checked: over market value, equal and uniform, or both.
Real comparable parcels from CAD bulk data plus recent sales, ranked by similarity. No invented numbers.
~70% of protests settle here. Your senior consultant negotiates with the CAD appraiser. You don't have to show up.
We attend the formal ARB hearing, present comps, get the order. You stay home.
~90 seconds. Address lookup auto-fills your CAD record. You see your current appraisal and an estimated savings range before you commit.
Texas Comptroller Form 50-162, e-signed in the flow. Per Tex. Tax Code § 1.111.
Before May 15. Both grounds (over market value AND equal and uniform) so the ARB has two reasons to give you relief.
Our senior consultant meets the CAD appraiser one-on-one. Most cases settle here. You get a settlement decision in writing.
We attend on your behalf and present your comp packet. ARB decides.
25% of your year-one tax savings. Auto-debited after the corrected bill arrives. If we don't save you anything, you owe zero.
No "$30/year just to be on the list." You pay only on savings, only after the savings land.
One year at a time. We send a reminder for the next season; you decide whether to renew.
If your value drops because the CAD did a mass adjustment, that's not us. We don't bill on it.
We're a Registered Property Tax Consultancy under Tex. Occ. Code Ch. 1152. Our work ends at the Appraisal Review Board. District-court appeals are referred to independent counsel.
We're not just talking. We already have 5.74M Texas parcels indexed from the largest CADs. Honest coverage; expanding.
Our pipeline: 16 county-specific scrapers → Pattern-B Postgres+PostGIS loader → 254-county Q1 2027 target. Methodology details in /methodology.html. Coverage by county on the interactive map.
Pure contingency. No upfront, no subscription, no retainer. We get paid only when your appraised value goes down.
Full Service
25% of first-year savings
We handle everything. Comps, filing, informal review, ARB if needed.
Example: $66K appraisal reduction at 2.95% = $1,947 saved. Fee $487, you keep $1,460.
Free Estimate
$0
See your savings estimate and comp set before committing.
Takes 60 seconds. No card. Upgrade to Full Service anytime before your deadline.
our fee · you keep the rest
100 units in a building means 100 separately-appraised parcels, and 100 chances to overpay. We file individually, settle collectively.
Under Tex. Prop. Code Ch. 82, each unit is its own parcel. Your HOA cannot protest for you. When 20+ owners in your building sign on, we negotiate at building-scale: one comp packet, cloned across units with floor-plan adjustments; one conversation with the CAD appraiser; Cluster Member Kickback: 5% of your own contingency back to each cluster member. And the ambassador who organized your tower, once 20+ neighbors are signed, bumps to 20% of TaxFight contingency on every protest from that building (single-tier, direct referrals only).
Full condo page → For $1M+ residences and high-end condo buildings, the white-glove track lives at /taxfight/luxury/.
Texas commercial owners chronically under-protest because pulling a credible comp set is expensive. Mass-appraisal districts know it. We close the gap.
Multi-tenant office, owner-occupied office, retail strip, anchored retail, mixed-use, light industrial, warehouse, self-storage, hospitality, gas station, restaurant — each needs its own comp pool and its own adjustments. CAD mass-appraisal isn't tuned for that, and a generic consultant’s comp packet won’t move an appraiser. We index every commercial parcel in your appraisal district from the CAD’s own bulk data and rank comparables by use code, age, NRA, sub-market, and adjusted assessed-value-per-square-foot.
Most commercial protests in Texas are won (or lost) on Equal & Uniform under Tex. Tax Code § 41.41(a)(2), refined by § 42.26(a)(3): if your parcel is assessed above the median value of a reasonable number of comparable properties, appropriately adjusted, the CAD must equalize it. We compute that median for your tier and sub-market and put it in front of the appraiser. We file as your authorized agent under § 1.111, work the informal review under § 41.45, and behave like a senior consultant relationship the appraiser will see again next year.
Contingency-only. Same flat 25% of estimated annual tax savings as residential. No retainer, no upfront fee, no per-property subscription. If we don’t win you a reduction, you owe nothing.
Plain-English answers with statutory cites. Not legal advice; see the disclosure at the bottom.
We file the annual property-tax protest for Texas owners. We are designated as your authorized agent under Tex. Tax Code § 1.111, we prepare and file the Notice of Protest (Form 50-132) before the statutory deadline, we pull comparable parcels from the County Appraisal District's own bulk data, and we appear on your behalf at the informal review and (if needed) the formal Appraisal Review Board (“ARB”) hearing under Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41. If we reduce your value, you pay a contingency fee. If we don't, you owe nothing.
Every January-to-April the County Appraisal District (“CAD”) mails you a Notice of Appraised Value telling you what the CAD thinks your property is worth as of January 1. That number drives your tax bill. You have a statutory right under Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41 to challenge that number, by arguing it is above market value, by arguing it is unequal compared with similar properties, or both. The challenge is called a “protest.” Filing one is your normal annual right; it is not adversarial in any unusual sense, and CADs expect tens of thousands of them each season.
Under Tex. Tax Code § 41.44(a), the deadline to file a Notice of Protest is May 15 of the tax year, or 30 days after the CAD mailed your Notice of Appraised Value, whichever is later. A handful of property types (BPP for some inventories under § 41.44(a)(2), and state-assessed properties) have different deadlines. We track the controlling date per county and file inside the window for you. If the CAD mailed your notice late, you may have additional time; we'll figure that out at intake.
If you miss the § 41.44 deadline, you generally lose the right to protest for that tax year, with three narrow exceptions: (i) a substantial-error motion under Tex. Tax Code § 25.25(c) to correct clerical errors, multiple appraisals, or property that doesn't exist; (ii) a § 25.25(d) motion to correct an over-appraisal of one-third or more on a residential homestead; and (iii) a late-filing motion for “good cause” under § 41.44(c). None of these is as broad as the regular protest right.
The informal review is a one-on-one negotiation between a CAD appraiser and the owner (or the owner's agent, us). It happens before any sworn hearing. Most protests settle here. If we cannot settle informally, the case proceeds to the Appraisal Review Board under Tex. Tax Code § 41.45: a quasi-judicial three-person panel, appointed by the local administrative district judge, that holds a formal hearing, takes evidence under oath, and issues a written Order Determining Protest.
Yes. Attendance is your right under Tex. Tax Code § 41.45. You can also have us appear without you under our agent designation (Form 50-162); that is the default in our engagement. Most counties now offer at least two of phone/video/in-person attendance under § 41.45(b)(1). We do not bill extra for client attendance.
Yes. Under Tex. Tax Code § 42.21, you have 60 days from the date you received the ARB Order Determining Protest to file a petition for judicial review in the district court of the county where the property is located. The appeal is a trial de novo. Alternatively, certain disputes can go to binding arbitration under Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41A. We will refer you to an independent attorney for either route; we do not handle § 42 appeals or § 41A arbitrations as part of our standard service.
From signup to a final result, plan on 3–7 months. Notice of value arrives March-April, we file your protest in April or early May, informal-review meetings run May through July, ARB hearings run May through September, and corrected tax bills land October-December. Travis and Harris run later because of volume.
Two principal forms in nearly every case. (1) Form 50-162, Appointment of Agent for Property Tax Matters, signed by you, designating us as your authorized agent under Tex. Tax Code § 1.111. (2) Form 50-132, Notice of Protest under Tex. Tax Code § 41.44, filed annually before May 15 with both grounds checked. When applicable we also file Form 50-114 (homestead exemption application) and Form 50-114-A (over-65 or disabled exemption application) at no charge.
Two grounds, every case, by default: (1) over market value under Tex. Tax Code § 41.41(a)(1); and (2) equal and uniform under Tex. Tax Code § 41.41(a)(2) and § 41.43(b)(3). We file both because the ARB has two independent legal reasons to grant relief, and because evidence that supports one ground often supports the other.
For market-value comps: recent arms-length sales of similar properties within a defensible radius and timeframe (typically 1 mile and 12 months in urban counties; broader in rural counties), adjusted for size, age, condition, and lot. For equity comps: appraised values (not sales) of similar properties, the same CAD's own valuations of your neighbors, drawn from the CAD bulk-data file. We document each adjustment so the ARB can audit our math.
Directly from each County Appraisal District's bulk-data publication (the same files the CAD itself uses internally) plus public-record deed data and MLS sales where licensed. We do not resell vendor data we have not independently verified. Every parcel and every sale in our database can be traced to its CAD record or its recorded-deed source. We currently have 5.74M Texas parcels indexed across 13 counties and are expanding to all 254 counties by Q1 2027.
The CAD cannot raise your appraisal as a consequence of you filing a protest. Under Tex. Tax Code § 41.43(a) the burden of proof at the protest hearing is on the chief appraiser. Only an ARB can change the value, and only on the same record; they cannot raise it sua sponte beyond the noticed value. The “they'll punish you for protesting” rumor is a myth.
Fee = (original CAD value − final agreed value) × your county's effective tax rate × 25%. Example: CAD says $524,000. We get it reduced to $458,000. That's a $66,000 reduction. At Harris County's ~2.95% effective rate, that's $1,947 in first-year savings. Your fee: $487. You keep $1,460.
You owe nothing. We don't charge a fee unless your appraised value actually goes down. If the CAD upholds the original value at both informal review and ARB, the case closes at $0.
No fee. If the CAD reduces your value through a mass adjustment (market correction across an entire neighborhood, post-disaster re-appraisal, etc.) before our protest produces a settlement or order, that reduction is not “our” reduction. We bill only on appeal-driven reductions documented in either the § 41.45(o) settlement form or the ARB Order Determining Protest.
After your corrected tax bill arrives from the county tax assessor-collector. Most counties mail corrected bills in October–December. We invoice you within 5 business days of bill receipt; payment is due 30 days from invoice date. ACH from a checking account is the default; card payment is available with a card-processor surcharge passed through at cost.
No. We do not auto-renew engagements. Every year you choose, fresh, whether to use us again. We will send a reminder email in March of the next tax year asking if you want us to file again, with a one-click “yes.” Silence is “no.”
No. Filing Form 50-114 is a free service we provide because too many Texas owners leave the homestead exemption on the table, and because charging contingency on a one-time statutory exemption nobody had to negotiate would be predatory. We bill only on protest-driven reductions from the actual annual protest.
For non-homestead properties (commercial, investment, vacation), the engagement agreement includes a contractual lien clause under Tex. Prop. Code § 12.001, a security interest in our fee in case of non-payment. Homestead properties are exempt by the Texas Constitution (Art. XVI § 50); homestead owners authorize ACH/card instead. For homestead non-payers, our remedy is small-claims action; that is a hard limit we will not work around.
As of 2026-06-15 we have CAD data indexed for 13 counties: Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, Collin, Denton, Williamson, Fort Bend, Hidalgo, El Paso, Galveston, and Montgomery: the most populous taxing jurisdictions in the state. We are expanding to all 254 counties by Q1 2027. Check the coverage map for the current list. If your county is not on the list yet, sign up anyway; we prioritize expansion by signup demand.
Yes. The same statutory framework applies (Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41 for protests, § 41.43 for burden of proof) but the comp work is heavier and the evidence is often income-and-expense rather than sales-comp. See the commercial tier above. Income-producing properties (multifamily, retail, office, industrial) get income-approach valuation; vacant commercial gets land-comp valuation.
Yes. BPP has a different rendition deadline (April 15 under Tex. Tax Code § 22.23) and a different evidence framework (asset listing, depreciation schedules, obsolescence factors). The 10% rendition penalty under § 22.28 cannot be removed by a protest, so if you missed the rendition we'll tell you the protest is fighting a smaller pool.
Yes. See the dedicated condo page. Each unit is separately appraised under Tex. Prop. Code Ch. 82; we run a playbook specific to condos (statutory arguments under Tex. Tax Code § 23.01, equity-and-uniformity across building units, unit-mix challenges to mass-appraisal models). Cluster Member Kickback when 20+ owners in your building sign on: 5% of your own contingency back to each cluster member. And the ambassador who organizes a 20+ cluster in one tower earns 20% of our contingency on cases from that building (single-tier, direct referrals only).
In limited circumstances, yes. Under Tex. Tax Code § 41.413, a lessee who is contractually obligated to reimburse the property owner for taxes has standing to protest the appraised value if the property owner did not protest. The lease must shift the property-tax burden to you, and the owner must not have filed. Common in commercial triple-net leases; rare in residential.
Yes. Out-of-state ownership of Texas property is normal; the protest right and our agent designation work the same regardless of your residence. We will need a valid US mailing address for tax-notice purposes, and an email and phone for case communication. All hearings can be done by phone or video.
At account signup: email, county, IP address, user-agent string, timestamp. At intake: name, mailing address, phone, the property address(es), the CAD account number(s), and the documents you choose to upload. At engagement signing: date of birth, last 4 digits of driver's license or SSN (for ID verification), bank account info if you pay by ACH, DocuSign envelope ID. We do not collect biometrics. We do not run credit checks. Full disclosure: see the Privacy Policy.
The County Appraisal District (only the fields the CAD requires) under Tex. Tax Code § 1.111 and § 41.44 to perform the service you hired us for. Our payment processor (Stripe for cards; an ACH processor for bank debits) to move money. Subpoena response if compelled by law. We do not sell your data to marketers. We do not run an ad network. We do not publish your data.
Three retention tracks:
No. TaxFight is a Registered Property Tax Consultancy under Tex. Occ. Code Ch. 1152. Our senior consultants are individually registered (or supervised by a registrant) with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (“TDLR”) as required by § 1152.151. We are licensed for exactly the work we do: administrative protests before County Appraisal Review Boards under Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41. We are not licensed to practice law in Texas, and we do not.
You do not need a lawyer to protest a property-tax appraisal in Texas. The statute (Tex. Tax Code § 1.111) explicitly authorizes non-attorney agents by design, because the legislature wanted property-tax representation to be accessible. Where law-firm-only work is required (specifically, an appeal of an ARB order to district court under Tex. Tax Code § 42), we refer you to independent counsel.
We are pre-launch for the 2027 protest season. We do not yet have a BBB rating, a Trustpilot history, or Google reviews. Anyone who claims we do is lying. We will earn that record honestly, in public, starting with the 2027 season.
If TaxFight ceases operations during your active protest, we are required to (a) notify you in writing within 5 business days, (b) provide you with a complete copy of your case file, and (c) revoke our agent designation under § 1.111 so you can re-engage another agent or proceed pro se with no procedural prejudice.
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation maintains a public license search at tdlr.texas.gov. Search by name or license number for “Property Tax Consultant” or “Senior Property Tax Consultant.” We will give you the license number for every consultant on your case in your dashboard.
For every Texas owner you refer who signs an engagement and wins a reduction, you earn 5% of our contingency, bumped to 20% on cases from a building where you've signed 20+ neighbors (single-tier, direct referrals only). Deep mechanics on the dedicated page.
Enter your Texas address, upload anything useful (prior CAD notices, photos, repair estimates), and sign the engagement. Address is enough to get started. No subscription, no upfront charge.
Start your intake →
NOT LEGAL ADVICE. TaxFight operates as a Registered Property Tax Consultancy under Tex. Occ. Code Ch. 1152. Our services are limited to administrative protests before County Appraisal Review Boards under Tex. Tax Code Ch. 41. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. District-court appeals under Tex. Tax Code § 42 require a licensed Texas attorney. We can refer you to qualified attorneys, but any such engagement is between you and the attorney directly.
Stats above (settle rate, contingency rate) reflect target operating parameters, not guarantees. Actual outcomes vary per property and county. "No savings, no fee" means zero fees if the protest results in no reduction; details in the engagement agreement. Effective tax rates referenced (Harris ~2.95%) are illustrative county averages; your effective rate depends on city, ISD, MUD, and other overlapping districts.
Address-entry estimates on this page are tagged [illustrative] and computed from a published target reduction rate (10%) applied to a representative effective tax rate (2.5%). Actual savings depend on your specific property, comparable parcels, hearing outcome, and your local taxing-unit rates. No guarantee of any specific reduction. Address autocomplete via OpenStreetMap Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL).
Signing up creates a WindMayor account. The client relationship and engagement begin when you complete the intake form and sign the engagement agreement, both available immediately after signup.