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Tarrant Appraisal District’s formal and informal hearing results are displayed below.

  • Owners in Tarrant County realized a property tax savings of $565 million in 2022, which is more than the $402 million savings they achieved in 2021. Tarrant County property owners protested the taxable value of 197,120 accounts in 2022.
  • Seventy-three percent of the informal and sixty-five percent of the Appraisal Review Board (ARB) property tax protests filed in Tarrant County were successful.
  • Homeowners saved $49 million at Tarrant Appraisal District (CAD) in informal protests and $9 million in ARB property tax protests.
  • In 2015, about 3% of Tarrant County property parcels were protested, but by 2022, this had increased to more than 10%.
  • The total tax savings from formal protests in 2017 resulted in about $146 million and increased in 2018 to about $193 million.

Property owners select O’Connor to represent them in property tax protests more often than any other firm because:

  • O’Connor’s aggressive approach is well aligned with the property owners’ interest.  We pay the fees and costs regardless of the level of appeal.  Many competitors require the property owner to pay the binding arbitration deposit or costs related to judicial appeal such as legal fees, expert witness fees and court costs. We will not ask you to pay any of the costs or fees related to your property tax protest.
  • O’Connor has built relationships with appraisal district staff during the last 30 years while conducting literally millions of property tax appeals.
  • 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.
  • O’Connor has the experience and expertise necessary to assemble uneven appraisal data and sales to satisfy the guidelines set by the Tarrant County Appraisal Review Board (ARB) and Tarrant Appraisal District.

Graphs

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Property Taxes vs CPI

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CAD Operations Stats

Tarrant County Appraisal District CAD

About CAD

  • County: Tarrant
  • Street Address: 2500 Handley-Ederville Rd. Fort Worth, TX 76118-6909
  • Mailing Address: 2500 Handley-Ederville Rd. Fort Worth, TX 76118-6909
  • Phone: 817-284-0024
  • Website: www.tad.org

Tarrant county appraisal district

Major Cities: Arlington, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Colleyville, Crowley, Dalworthington Gardens, Eagle Mountain, Edgecliff Village, Euless, Everman, Forest Hill, Fort Worth, Grapevine, Grand Prairie, Haltom City, Hurst, Keller, Kennedale, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Newark, North Richland Hills, Pantego, Pecan Acres, Pelican Bay, Rendon, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Southlake, Watauga, Westover Hills, Westworth Village, White Settlement

Tarrant County Texas totals 902 square miles, with a 2020 population of about 2,110,640. Adjacent counties include Denton, Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Wise. The total market value of real property and personal property in Tarrant County in 2020 was $245,000,000,000. Tarrant County 2020 property taxes are estimated to total $5,000,000,000 million based on an effective tax rate of 2.4% including homestead exemptions. Tarrant County property owners protested the noticed value for 100,840 houses and 48,250 commercial and BPP properties. Tarrant County Appraisal Review Board appeals were successful for 43% of the owners. Property owner property tax protests in Tarrant County results in savings of $1,595,000,000 in 2020, or $10,698 per account protested. The 2020 budget for the Tarrant was $24,910,000 including 211 employees.

Average Property Tax Savings from Protesting (Informal + Formal)

  • Residential Property $351
  • Commercial Property $3,882


August 2023

Total property tax savings from Tarrant County informal and formal hearings were $257 million in 2021.

July 2023

Protests at the Tarrant County Appraisal Review Board in 2021 generated a total of $847 million in tax assessment reduction, generating an estimated $21.1 million in property tax savings.

June 2023

Tarrant Appraisal District informal hearing settlements in 2021 reduced assessed values by $9.4 billion, generating an estimated $235 million in property tax savings.

May 2023

Tarrant Appraisal District resolved 155,475 accounts informally in 2021 and 62,822 included a reduction in value, or 40% of informal settlements were successful in obtaining a lower value.

April 2023

Tarrant County property owners filed 148,104 property tax protests with Tarrant Appraisal District in 2021. The market value protested was $122 billion or 43% of the total market value.

March 2023

Houses valued by the Tarrant Appraisal District total $148 billion, or 52% of the total value of $284 billion.

February 2023

The Tarrant Appraisal District valued 1,840,884 tax parcels, with a budget of $25.5 million which is $14 per tax parcel.

January 2023

The total value of real and personal property valued by Tarrant Appraisal District is $284 billion, generating about $7 billion in annual real estate taxes, based on a 2.5% tax rate and no exemptions.

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