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Texas' Largest Property Tax Consultant
Our staff achieves better results than is typical for most firms. We attempt to reduce your property taxes for each property every year, even if the value did not change!
We have the expertise and the manpower to help you lower your property taxes. In 2008, O'Connor & Associates filed more than 140,000 protests, effectively reducing our client's assessed values by almost $2.6 billion, cutting their taxes by over $65 million. We will aggressively pursue every legal avenue to protest and lower your taxes:
- Informal hearings
- Appraisal Review Board (ARB) hearings
- Judicial appeals
Even if your property is taxed for less than its market value, you could still be eligible for a property tax cut based on inequitable assessment compared to neighboring or competing properties. Our staff generated property tax savings for nearly 75% of our Harris County residential clients' properties in 2007!
Hire O'Connor & Associates to appeal high property taxes. You pay NOTHING unless we save you money! May 31, 2009 is the deadline to protest most accounts. If you filed your own protest in Harris County, O'Connor & Associates can still represent you at your hearing.
Call Toll Free: 1-877-4-TAXCUT or e-mail our property tax department.
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Property Tax Myths
It doesn't make sense to appeal my property taxes if my property is assessed for less than market value.
Not true. Using unequal appraisal, our property tax consultants can probably reduce your property taxes even if your assessed value is below market value. Unequal appraisal compares the assessed value of your property to the assessed value of similar properties. O'Connor & Associates is the market leader in developing and presenting unequal appraisal appeals. Our property tax consultants use proprietary computer programs, banks of server computers and massive databases to search for assessment comparables which document a lower assessed value for your property. Many, if not most, property tax appeals focus on unequal appraisal instead of market value.
Property tax increases are capped at 10% per year.
The appraisal district can increase your assessed value 10% plus the market value of any improvements.
O'Connor & Associates' property tax consultants reduced property taxes for 75% of Harris County homeowners in 2007. In addition, there is no cost if our property tax consultants do not reduce your property taxes.
Protesting my property taxes probably will not be successful… why bother?
Most property tax appeals are successful. A survey of over 600 property owners indicates 66% of owners who appeal are successful. O'Connor & Associates' property tax consultants reduced property taxes for 75% of Harris County homeowners and 80% of Harris County commercial property owners in 2007.
Isn't it risky to appeal? What is the downside?
Most property tax appeals are successful and the value cannot be increased at the informal hearing, where most accounts are settled. The assessed value rarely increases at the ARB.
The appraisal district will retaliate if I protest.
No. We filed over 140,000 appeals in 2008.
Will the appraisal district inspect my house?
Not unless you tell the appraisal district that your house is smaller than they indicate and they need to measure it. The appraisal district is very busy during the property tax appeal season and simply does not have the staffing to measure thousands of houses.
I don't have time to appeal!
Just call O'Connor & Associates before your protest deadline. After a three-minute phone call, our property tax consultants and support staff will handle your appeal.
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