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Papa_Tiger wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 11:16 am

wil wrote:

jason812 wrote:There should be a process to appeal. Problem is the appraisal district just does what they want. I protested 3 acres I'm building a house on. Wanted to say if you can find me somebody to pay what you say it's worth, I'll cash the check. After I was called by the appraisal office, I got the price per acre value dropped from $8k to $3k. Now tell me it's not a racket. It did help that I have 74 more acres around the 3 that is ag exempt.

I really want to see what the appraisal district employees' properties are valued at. It would not surprise me one bit that their values didn't go up as much as everybody else's. I wish the property tax was replaced with a consumption tax.

'Ag exemption'

I've heard this term in regards to property ownership, what is it? I'm guessing there's process involved, did you do this yourself? Where did you go or where would I go to find out about this exemption and what it does and where it can be applied?

Generally your county will have guidelines for acceptable agricultural use of the land and if you meet those requirements, there is a process that you can go through to have the land valued at the agricultural output of the land rather than the "market value". For more information look up "Texas 1-D-1 Valuation".

jason812 wrote:There should be a process to appeal. Problem is the appraisal district just does what they want. I protested 3 acres I'm building a house on. Wanted to say if you can find me somebody to pay what you say it's worth, I'll cash the check. After I was called by the appraisal office, I got the price per acre value dropped from $8k to $3k. Now tell me it's not a racket. It did help that I have 74 more acres around the 3 that is ag exempt.

I really want to see what the appraisal district employees' properties are valued at. It would not surprise me one bit that their values didn't go up as much as everybody else's. I wish the property tax was replaced with a consumption tax.