Liberty Property Tax Appeals Save $234,722 Per Year

Liberty property tax appeals saved Liberty County property owners over $234,722 in 2021. Liberty Central Appraisal District establishes the initial value. Owners can protest market value and unequal appraisal. Tax protests generate large savings in Liberty. Informal hearings saved owners $60,112 in 2021, formal hearings (ARB) saved owners $174,610 in 2021 and lawsuits saved owners $54,336. There is no cost to file an appeal. Most property tax appeals at Liberty Central Appraisal District are successful (40 to 70% are successful).

Total Value Reduction, Informal HearingsSource: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.

	Millions of $
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
$ Total Value Reduction	95.06	77.03	18.29	17.89	21.88	36.82	130.23	120.66	111.09	219.95	106.45
Single Family Residential Reduction	2.05	7.64	3.79	4.20	4.41	10.23	22.48	20.55	18.61	36.15	19.25
Commercial / Other	93.01	69.39	14.50	13.68	17.47	26.58	107.75	100.11	92.48	183.80	87.20

Texas property owners should protest annually since The value cannot be raised during the protest, based on 2019 legislation.

Liberty County Property Tax Savings from Administrative Appeals

The Liberty Central Appraisal District and the Liberty County Appraisal Review Board (ARB) work with property owners and property tax consultants to correct the errors in the initial property tax values. Informal hearings are between an appraisal district appraiser and a property owner or tax consultant (if you don’t want to do it yourself). A three-member ARB panel hears cases not resolved informally and some of the cases that go to the ARB end with a judicial appeal, binding arbitration or a SOAH (State Office of Administrative Hearing).

You can’t get a reduction unless you file an appeal. If you do not feel comfortable doing it yourself, you can turn to O’Connor and we will be glad to help.

Liberty County property tax protests for home owners accounted for 48% of the tax assessment reductions in informal hearings while commercial / other properties accounted for 52% of the reductions in informal hearings.

Liberty CAD Informal Hearings

The Liberty Central Appraisal District property tax assessment reduction is shown in the following graph. Believe it or not, most people do not appeal their property tax assessment. However, most of those that protest see reductions in their property taxes.

Total Value Reduction, Formal ARB HearingsSource: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.

	Billions of $
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
$ Total Value Reduction	0.001	0.002	0.010	0.019	0.009	0.007	0.009	0.006	0.014	0.021	0.029
Single Family Residential Reduction	0	0.001	0.003	0.005	0.001	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.007	0.013	0.019
Commercial / Other	0.001	0.001	0.008	0.014	0.007	0.005	0.008	0.005	0.007	0.008	0.010

Texas property owners should protest annually since You can’t evaluate the strength of your appeal until you obtain the hearing evidence file. You have to protest to obtain the hearing evidence file (available free upon request via U.S. mail).

Liberty CAD Formal ARB Hearings

The graph you see shows the Property tax assessment reductions for the Liberty County Appraisal Review Board hearings.

Formal ARB hearings from commercial / other properties reduced their property tax assesments by $874,530 in 2014 and $175,233 in 2021.

Tax Savings, Informal HearingsSource: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.

	Millions of $
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
$ Total Value Reduction	2.00	1.62	0.38	0.38	0.46	0.77	2.73	2.53	2.33	4.62	2.24
Single Family Residential Reduction	0.04	0.16	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.21	0.47	0.43	0.39	0.76	0.40
Commercial / Other	1.95	1.46	0.30	0.29	0.37	0.56	2.26	2.10	1.94	3.86	1.83

Texas property owners should protest annually since Not appealing is used against property owners in the subsequent years since “you agreed to the value” (by not protesting).

Estimated Total Property Tax Informal Savings

Here you can see the Total Liberty Central Appraisal District property tax savings for informal and formal hearings. This does not include property tax savings from judicial appeals, binding arbitration and State Office of Administrative hearings.

It is your right to manage taxation for the benefit of you and your family. Annual property tax appeals are effective. Property taxes are the most significant tax in Texas.

Liberty County single family owners reduced their property taxes by $28,858 from informal hearings in 2021 versus $31,254 in tax savings from informal hearings for commercial / other. Informal tax savings for all Liberty property owners from informal tax protests totaled $60,112 in 2021.

Tax Savings, Formal ARB HearingsSource: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.

	Millions of $
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
$ Total Value Reduction	0.02	0.04	0.22	0.40	0.19	0.14	0.20	0.14	0.29	0.44	0.61
Single Family Residential Reduction	0	0.02	0.06	0.10	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.14	0.27	0.39
Commercial / Other	0.02	0.02	0.16	0.30	0.16	0.11	0.16	0.11	0.14	0.18	0.22

Tax Savings, Formal ARB Hearings

Liberty County property owners reduced their property taxes by $174,610 in ARB hearings in 2021. This includes property tax savings of $30,631 for single family and $143,979 for commercial property (see bottom table).

Total Tax Savings (Informal & Formal)Source: Texas Comptroller, compiled by O’Connor, and not affiliated with any appraisal district.

	Millions of $
	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
$ Total Value Reduction	2.02	1.66	0.60	0.78	0.65	0.91	2.93	2.67	2.62	5.06	2.85
Single Family Residential Reduction	0.04	0.18	0.14	0.19	0.12	0.24	0.50	0.45	0.53	1.03	0.79
Commercial / Other	1.97	1.48	0.46	0.59	0.53	0.67	2.42	2.21	2.08	4.04	2.05

Total Tax Savings (Informal & Formal)

Liberty County property owners achieved substantial savings through the informal and formal hearings. Liberty County property owners reduced their 2021 property taxes by $234,722 by through protests to Liberty Central Appraisal District / ARB. This total includes both informal and formal / ARB hearings, but does not include litigation. Tax savings were split $59,489 for single family and $175,233 for commercial / other.