Attention Kane County Property Owners!
Have you received your 2024 tax bill yet? The Kane County Assessor is scheduled to reassess values for 2025, with property values anticipated to continue escalating. But you don’t have to accept this. O’Connor is ready to begin our integrated approach to appealing your 2025 assessment. Protest filing will open soon, so get ahead of the curve by enrolling now.
- Yes, O’Connor CAN help you reduce your property taxes
- Yes – there is NEVER a fee unless we reduce your property taxes
- Simple online enrollment in just 2 or 3 minutes
- Appeal Deadlines for Kane County Townships Scheduled for 2024 Reassessment. View more
Property Tax Protection Program™ is powered by O’Connor & Associates
| Township | County | Enrollment Deadline | Filing Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva | Kane | 7/20/2023 | 7/24/2023 |
| Sugar Grove | Kane | 7/18/2023 | 7/20/2023 |
| Richmond | McHenry | 7/18/2023 | 7/20/2023 |
| Bloom | Cook | 7/25/2023 | 7/26/2023 |
| Chemung | McHenry | 8/15/2023 | 8/17/2023 |
| Dundee | Kane | 8/17/2023 | 8/21/2023 |
| Hampshire | Kane | 8/17/2023 | 8/21/2023 |
| Kaneville | Kane | 8/17/2023 | 8/21/2023 |
| Virgil | Kane | 8/17/2023 | 8/21/2023 |
| Waukegan | Lake | 8/24/2023 | 8/28/2023 |
| Blackberry | Kane | 9/1/2023 | 9/5/2023 |
| Benton | Lake | 9/1/2023 | 9/5/2023 |
| Cuba | Lake | 9/1/2023 | 9/5/2023 |
| Newport | Lake | 9/7/2023 | 9/11/2023 |
| Vernon | Lake | 9/7/2023 | 9/11/2023 |
O’Connor offers property tax reduction service to all Kane County townships:
- Hampshire
- Rutland
- Dundee
- Burlington
- Plato
- Elgin
- Virgil
- Campton
- St. Charles
- Kaneville
- Blackberry
- Batavia
- Geneva
- Big Rock
- Sugar Grove
- Aurora
Our Coordinated Approach Benefits You
All aspects are handled by O’Connor’s staff while appealing your property. Our research team uses our unique database to find the most accurate sales and unequal appraisal data to support a value drop for you. Our qualified tax agents collaborate with appraisers and lawyers to get the best results. We try to lower your taxes by taking these steps:
- Facilitate with the Kane County Assessor
- Kane County Board of Review (BOR)
- The Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board (PTAB)
O’Connor Can Save You Money
By utilizing appeal strategies, O’Connor Property Tax Consultants help their clients save in property taxes:
Strategy #1 – The property tax specialist will challenge the assessors’ high market value estimations. We will protest the assessor’s value estimates that are vastly above market value. In most townships, the assessor overestimates 50% of properties, especially homes. This is due to the assessors wanting 100% market value.
Strategy #2 – The property tax consultant will contest the unequal valuation of dwellings. A disparate appraisal protest is based on the Kane County Assessor’s determination that comparable residences are assessed at a reduced value. Over the years the vast majority of properties in Kane County can be documented as unequal appraisals.
Many property owners feel the assessor’s assessment is too high or low and that protesting their property taxes is pointless. However, appealing property value and unequal appraisal reaps successful results. On average, annual revaluation appeals succeed over 95%.
What Can Cut My Taxes Do?
O’Connor’s Property Tax Protection Program™ offers services for
- Commercial, Business Personal Property (BPP), and residential For the Property Tax Protection Program™, trained property tax professionals will
- Appeal property taxes annually with no upfront costs. Clients will only have to pay if they save,
- Research market value by studying similar sales,
- Protest, prepare evidence, and attend property tax hearings before the Appraisal Review Board (ARB)
Enroll in the Property Tax Protection Program™ Today!
O’Connor will fight your property taxes every year. YOU PAY NOTING unless taxes are reduced. Yone benefit of our program is that you only pay if your taxes are reduced. How much you pay is dependent on your tax reduction savings.
Steps to Start Your Property Tax Protest with a top property tax consultant from O’Connor:
1. Evaluate your property tax assessment
- Does the assessment of your property appear to be accurate or equitable?
- Is the assessor’s value greater than the present market value?
2. Enroll in O’Connor’s Property Tax Protection Program™
- Our consultants review existing documents, collect evidence, and formally present appeals to the Appraisal Review Board (ARB).
- If needed, the O’Connor team will take legal action and coordinate a lawsuit.
You may qualify for a property tax exemption as a property owner. Property tax exemptions are a means by which property owners can reduce their tax expenses and save money. There are seven kinds of exemptions that can help reduce the value of your property and save money. Each exemption has its own qualifications, application procedures, and reduction estimates.
Receive Assistance From Property Tax Protection Program™ Today!
If you believe your property taxes are excessive, you have the option to appeal in order to advocate for an equitable assessment. By enrolling in the RISK-FREE program, O’Connor will advocate for the reassessment and reduction of your property taxes. Some benefits of the program include:
- A customer portal and
- Free tax saving tips.
Our Proven Process:
- Closely examine current assessments
- Your property tax appeals are presented before the Appraisal Review Board (ARB) after comprehensive research and preparation.
- Coordinate a lawsuit and take legal action, if needed.
Our clients will not be charged for court, evaluations, expert witnesses, and lawyers. You only pay if your taxes are reduced below the original assessment!
Kelsie Neahring, Property Tax Consultant
Kelsie Neahring heads residential and commercial property tax consulting for O’Connor’s Chicago office. Prior to joining O’Connor, Kelsie worked for the Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office as a criminal litigator. Her experience in trials and hearings provides O’Connor’s clients with an advantage in hearings and negotiations. She enjoys crafting innovative ways to make arguments and build evidence for hearings. Kelsie is a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.
ENROLL TODAY In the Property Tax Protection Program™
Your property taxes will be aggressively protested every year by the #1 property tax firm in the country. If your taxes are not reduced you PAY NOTHING, and a portion of the tax savings is the only fee you pay when your taxes are reduced! Many FREE benefits come with enrollment.
Property Tax Locations
Chicago Office
(By appointment only)
75 Executive Drive,
Suite 349, Aurora, IL 60504
708-630-0944
Houston Office
(Corporate)
2200 North Loop West,
Suite 200 Houston, TX 77018
713-686-9955
Dallas Office
(By appointment only)
12300 Ford Rd., Suite #414
Dallas, TX 75234
972-243-9966
San Antonio Office
(By appointment only)
8632 Fredericksburg Rd Ste 105
San Antonio TX 78240
210-226-0829
Atlanta Office
(By appointment only)
4751 Best Road, Suite 316,
College Park, GA 30337
770-835-4126
Property Tax Protection Program™ Benefits
- No flat fees or upfront costs. No cost ever unless your property taxes are reduced.
- All practical efforts are made every year to reduce your property taxes.
- Never miss another appeal deadline.
- Property taxes protested for you annually.
- You do not have to accept the appraisal district's initial guesstimate of value.
- We coordinate with you regarding building size / condition to avoid excess taxes.
- Free support regarding homestead exemptions.
- Some years are good - typically 6 to 7 out of 10 will result in tax reduction for you.
- The other 3 to 4 years out of 10 we strike out. Most often due to people issues in the hearing process. Some years we get an easy appraiser at the informal; some years someone who is impossible to settle with.
About O'Connor
Property Tax Help Specialists
O’Connor provides property tax appeal services to over 100,000 clients in over 40 states. Client tax savings totaled over $120 million in 2020. O’Connor has been serving property owners since 1974, almost 50 years. Client tax savings total over $1,000,000,000.
O’Connor measures its success in client property tax savings, not billings. Our goal is to save clients $1 billion annually.
With over 200 property tax experts, many of whom have worked with us for 10+ years, O’Connor has the expertise to help with your property tax questions and appeals. We literally wrote the books on property tax reduction:
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The steps to appeal are complicated and may seem like too much work, but when O'Connor represents your property for appeal, we handle the details. We provide a property tax reduction service to residential homeowners in exchange for a contingency fee of 30 percent of all property taxes saved through administrative hearings or judicial appeal, for that tax year.