Texas · Coming 2027

The 25% middleman is not the only option.

Texas homeowners pay $500–$2,000 every year to companies that protest their property tax for them — and take a cut of the savings. TaxStand gives you the same professional protest packet for a single flat fee. You file it yourself. You keep all the savings.

$199 flat. No contingency. No cut of your savings. Pay once. Protest every year. Same packet a $2,000 firm would file.

No spam, no sales pitches, one email when we launch in your county.

Why this exists

A friend of ours in Johnson County bought his home in 2024. By 2025, the county had appraised it at $481,814 — a 73% increase over what it was valued at three years earlier. The same county had not raised the appraisal on a comparable newer home one neighborhood over. When he asked his county representatives what to do, they told him not to worry about re-filing his homestead exemption — that it would "just carry over." It doesn't. That misinformation alone cost him roughly $111,000 of recoverable assessed value.

He had two options. Hire one of the 25%-contingency protest firms and hand over a piece of his savings. Or walk into the appraisal board with a manila folder and hope for the best.

He picked the manila folder, and still got $70,000 knocked off. He should have gotten more. The reason he didn't is the only thing that separates a successful protest from an unsuccessful one — a professional-looking evidence packet with the right numbers in the right places.

That's what TaxStand builds. For the cost of a steak dinner.

How it works

1

Enter your account number

Type the property ID from your county appraisal notice. We never ask for SSN, banking info, or anything you wouldn't paste into a public search.

2

We build the packet

We pull the public appraisal records for every comparable home in your neighborhood, find the ones that hurt your case the most, and assemble them into a single evidence-grade PDF.

3

You file it

Upload the PDF to your county appraisal district's protest portal by May 15. Show up to the informal review. The packet has talking points for what to say. Most protests settle there — no formal hearing needed.

What's in the packet

Side-by-side comparable analysis

Up to 15 neighboring properties, sorted by appraised dollars-per-square-foot. The single most damning comparison gets its own page. Your appraised premium over the neighborhood median, calculated to the dollar.

Homestead exemption audit

If your homestead exemption lapsed (extremely common after a property sale), the packet detects it and tells you exactly what to file to restore it — often worth more in tax savings than the protest itself.

Owner-supplied evidence section

Adjacent disrepair, recent purchase price below appraisal, foundation issues, contractor quotes for needed repairs — the qualitative facts that the county doesn't know but you do. Rendered as material evidence the review board has to consider.

Verbatim hearing scripts

Word-for-word phrases to use during your informal review and formal hearing. Cite the relevant Texas Tax Code sections. Rebut the appraiser's most common pushback patterns. Know what NOT to say.

Filing instructions

Step-by-step walkthrough of your specific county's protest portal. Deadlines. Form numbers. Where to upload. What to expect in the days after.

Texas Comptroller forms — official, free, here for your convenience

These are the Texas Comptroller's public forms you'll use during a protest or to claim your homestead exemption. They're hosted directly from comptroller.texas.gov — we keep a mirror here so you don't have to hunt for them. State-published forms are public domain.

Form 50-132

Notice of Protest. The form you file with your county appraisal district to start a property tax protest. Deadline: May 15 or 30 days after notice, whichever is later.

Form 50-114

Application for Residence Homestead Exemption. File this once when you buy a home (it does not carry over from the prior owner). Restores the 10%/yr assessed-value cap.

Form 50-162

Appointment of Agent. Only needed if you're authorizing someone else (family, attorney, agent) to represent you at the hearing. Optional for a DIY protest.

What TaxStand does not do

We don't represent you at hearings. We don't promise specific savings. We don't auto-renew you onto a subscription. We don't take a percentage of anything you save. We don't ask for your closing documents or your driver's license or anything we don't need.

We give you a packet, you file the packet. The whole point is that you don't need a professional intermediary. The state of Texas built the protest process for you, and the comp data is already public. We just put it on one piece of paper in the order an Appraisal Review Board respects.