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Austin Tea Party

Property tax representation, statewide

Taxation without representation.

Save on your property tax. Free to sign up, only pay if we win.

Four in five Texas homes went unprotested last year. Of the protests that were filed, seven in ten were filed by a representative. We are the representation.

Less than 2 minutes. No credit card.

Revere, the Austin Tea Party armadillo

Meet Revere.

An armadillo in a tricorn hat. He rides to the county with your Declaration so you never have to, and he only comes back with good news or no bill.

$0
to get started
$0
if we don't win
40%
of the tax you save, and nothing else
254
Texas counties we cover

No signup fee, no minimum fee, and no charge for filing your homestead exemption. We publish our results once we have a season of them.

The taxes are coming!

Find out in twenty seconds what the county has you at. Nothing up front. Nothing at all if your taxes don't go down.

We don't care how you vote. We care what you pay.

Revere, the Austin Tea Party armadillo
Revere, the Austin Tea Party armadillo

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 comparable sales. Nobody asked you. It stands unless somebody protests it, and four in five Texas homes let it stand.

How the county's number is made

Then and now

1773 / 2027.

Same complaint. Different harbor.

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.

  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 40% of that year's tax savings, invoiced once a year and only in a year the number comes down, invoiced once. If it doesn't, we held the line: you owe nothing, and we go again next April.

The Tea Bill

One number. That's the whole price.

40% of the tax you save, and nothing at all if we don't win. 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, 40%$293
You keep$440

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. Informal settlement and ARB determination combined. We publish no win rate from this file: it counts informal inquiries in a wider bucket than protests filed, and any ratio built from the two overstates.

Property tax bills are due January 31, 2027

134 daysLower next year's bill