Smith County Appraisal District
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Smith County Appraisal District’s (CAD) formal and informal hearing results are displayed below:
- The Smith CAD total tax savings in 2022 of $3 million is less than the 2021 total property tax savings of $4 million. Property owners in Smith County protested $4,170 in accounts taxable value in 2022.
- 47% of informal and 56% of Appraisal Review Board (ARB) property tax protests in Smith County were successful. Homeowners saved $210 thousand at Smith CAD in informal protests and $170 thousand in ARB property tax protests.
- For the percentage of parcels protested in Smith County between the years 2015 to 2021 there was little to no change until 2022 with a rapid increase of 4%.
- Smith County the percent of informal hearings resulting in a reduction, both single family homes and commercial protests grew at a similar pace from 2020 to 2022 with the highest being 49%.
More property owners choose O’Connor than any other tax consultant in Texas because:
- O’Connor’s aggressive approach to property tax protests uses every avenue available including informal hearings, Appraisal Review Board (ARB) hearings, binding arbitration, SOAH (State Office of Administrative Hearing) and coordinating judicial appeals.
- Based on conducting millions of tax appeals throughout Texas, we have developed an in-depth understanding of what is needed to reduce your property taxes.
- You benefit from the millions of Texas property tax appeals completed by O’Connor, using comparable sales data and unequal appraisal data uniquely processed by our proprietary software. The hearing evidence file often totals 50 to 100 pages.
- We have compiled sales and uneven appraisal data in a way that satisfies the requirements of the Smith County ARB and the Smith CAD thanks to our expertise.
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Property Taxes vs CPI
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CAD Operations Stats
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About CAD
- County: Smith
- Street Address: 245 S. S.E. Loop 323 Tyler, TX 75702-6456
- Mailing Address: 245 S. S.E. Loop 323 Tyler, TX 75702-6456
- Phone: 903-510-8600
- Website: www.smithcad.org
Major Cities: Arp, Hideaway, Lindale, New Chapel Hill, Noonday, Overton , Troup, Tyler, Whitehouse
Smith County Texas totals 950 square miles, with a 2020 population of about 233,479. Adjacent counties include Wood, Upshur, Gregg, Rusk, Cherokee, Henderson and Van Zandt County. The total market value of real property and personal property in Smith County in 2020 was $26,000,000,000. Smith County 2020 property taxes are estimated to total $349,000 billion, based on an effective tax rate of 2.4% including homestead exemptions. Smith County property owners protested the noticed value for 2,640 houses and 5,310 commercial and BPP properties. Smith County Appraisal Review Board appeals were successful for 51% of the owners. Property owner property tax protests in Smith County results in savings of $6,000,000 million in 2020, or $754.71 per account protested. The 2020 budget for the Smith was $4,940,000 including 46 employees.
Average Property Tax Savings from Protesting (Informal + Formal)
- Residential Property $343
- Commercial Property $1,966
August 2023
An estimated $3.6 million dollars in tax savings was generated based on property value reductions at both informal and formal hearing in Smith County in 2021. Of this total, $269,573 in estimated tax savings can be attributed to informal hearings and $3.3 million in estimated tax savings resulted from ARB hearings.
July 2023
Smith County property owners benefited from an estimated $3.3 million in tax savings when county Appraisal Review Board hearings resulted in reductions in property value of $134 million.
June 2023
In Smith County, $269,573 in property tax savings was generated when the Smith County Appraisal District reduced assessed values by $10.7 million at informal hearings in 2021, according to the Texas Comptroller.
May 2023
The Smith County Appraisal District resolved 45%, or 441 accounts with a lower value without advancing to the ARB in 2021.
April 2023
Smith County property tax protests were filed for 18% of the total market value noticed, which comes to $4 billion for 4,229 Smith County properties.
March 2023
$12 billion of the $27 billion total market value of property in the Smith County Appraisal District, or 44% is attributed to single-family residential property, according to the Texas Comptroller’s 2021 data.
February 2023
In 2021, there were 171,622 parcels in the Smith County Appraisal District. The appraisal district’s budget for the year was $5,261,094, which comes to around $31 per tax parcel.
January 2023
Smith County property taxes are based on the product of tax rates set by tax entities and assessed values set by Smith CAD. Smith County Appraisal District is responsible for estimating the value of both personal and real property in Smith County. Smith CAD values land, utilities, industrial property, commercial, land, multifamily and houses at least every three years. Smith CAD’s value was $26 billion for 2021 which generated an estimated $669 million in property taxes based on a 2.5% tax rate.