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Austin Tea Party

Property tax representation, statewide

Taxation without representation.

NOT A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

We don't care who you vote for. We care how much you pay in property taxes.

We lower your property tax bill. You only pay us if we save you money.

Most Texans who fight their property taxes hire someone to do it. It takes two minutes, and we'll represent you and fight your property taxes. It costs nothing to sign up.

No credit card to sign up. All 254 counties.

Revere, the Austin Tea Party armadillo

Meet Revere.

A nine-banded armadillo, the official state small mammal of Texas. His mission is ours: to save Texans billions of dollars on their property taxes. He rides to the county so you don't have to.

$0
to get started
$0
if we don't win
30%
of the tax you save, and nothing else
254
Texas counties we cover

Eighty-five seconds

Revere explains the whole thing.

What the county's number is, what we do about it, what it costs, and what the Declaration is. From the armadillo himself.

Revere reading the Royal Estimate, a paper dragon made of spreadsheet printout

The Royal Estimate

The county's number.

Every spring the appraisal district mails you a value for your house. It comes from a computer, a neighborhood average, and a set of sales. Nobody asked you. It stands unless somebody protests it, and four in five Texas homes let it stand. We call it the Royal Estimate.

How the county's number is made

The taxes are coming!

See what the county has you at. It costs nothing to sign up. You only pay us if we save you money.

We don't care who you vote for. We care how much you pay in property taxes.

Revere and Bluebonnet, Austin Tea Party

Then and now

1773 / 2027.

Same complaint. Better paperwork.

342 chests of tea
254 appraisal districts
No representation
Four in five homes, no protest at all
A tax on tea
A tax on your house, recalculated every April
A king across an ocean
A number from a computer
Redcoats
The Notice, arriving April 1 to 15

The Declaration

We are the representation.

One form appoints us. After that, we do the year's work and you hear from us when something happens.

Revere reading the Declaration, Bluebonnet beside him
  1. 01Your homestead

    File your exemption. Free.

    If the house is your primary residence, the first thing we do is file your homestead exemption. No charge, ever. It is worth about $845 to $1,743 a year at school rates, depending on your county.

  2. 02Every spring

    Protest the county's number.

    One form, the Declaration (Form 50-162), appoints us. We protest by May 15 and argue your case in person, on your behalf, in the informal meeting and in front of the review board.

  3. 03The bill

    Pay only if we win.

    If the number comes down, our fee is 30% of that year's tax savings, invoiced once, later in the year. If it doesn't, we held the line: you owe nothing, and we go again next April.

Good news, or no bill

One number. That's the whole price.

30% of the tax you save, and nothing at all if your taxes don't go down. No signup fee, no minimum, no charge for the exemption filing. Here is what last year's average Harris County reduction looks like on the bill.

Tea BillHarris County · 2024 · average reduction granted
Value the county removed$33,762
Off that year's tax bill$733
Our fee, 30%$220
You keep$513

Worked from the state's own figures, not ours. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 2024 Appraisal District Operations Survey, single-family residential. Your county and your house will differ.

Last year, by county

Where protesting moved the most money.

Historical county averages from 2024. Illustration only, not a quote or a forecast for your house.

All 254 counties
  1. 01Harris County
    $232M

    off tax bills, from $10.7 billion of value removed. Average cut $33,762 per reduction granted.

  2. 02Travis County
    $228M

    off tax bills, from $11.5 billion of value removed. Average cut $87,265 per reduction granted.

  3. 03Tarrant County
    $195M

    off tax bills, from $9.7 billion of value removed. Average cut $54,885 per reduction granted.

  4. 04Bexar County
    $59M

    off tax bills, from $2.8 billion of value removed. Average cut $24,925 per reduction granted.

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 2024 Appraisal District Operations Survey, single-family residential. We publish no win rate from this file: it counts informal inquiries in a wider bucket than protests filed.

Property tax bills are due January 31, 2027

90 daysLower next year's bill