Tax Corrector is a service that helps homeowners reduce their property taxes by providing Protest Reports and market evidence to assist in the protest process.

It is not a service that offers advice beyond what the Protest Reports can do to help. We have designed them to provide the relevant and sufficient information that both the homeowner and the appraisal district need to see.

Once you purchase your Protest Report, you can upload it to the district's website as your evidence package if you decide to protest online. If you are meeting with the Appraisal District in person, you can bring the report with you.

Since the final decisions are ultimately made by the appraisal district and their review boards, we can't guarantee success for everyone. This is why we have a Free Evaluation, so you can quickly find out if you have a potential case.

For those who do have a case, we are proud to have achieved a 90% success rate with our customers since 2022. 🙂

Continue to the "How Does Tax Corrector Work?" section for additional details.

Tax Corrector presents a convenient way to enter basic information about your home and instantly get a suggestion on whether or not you have a case for protesting your property taxes.

Each year, when the Appraisal District releases their new Proposed Market Values for homeowners, you can come to Tax Corrector and use our Free Evaluation tool to find out if you have a potential case. If we find evidence showing the Appraisal District's proposed market value is higher than what comparable homes (COMPS) reveal, we will suggest that you move forward with protesting.

We use the most accurate, local real estate data directly from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) provided by the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR). You can use our reports with confidence to support your case with the Appraisal District.

If your situation requires personal advice, or help with protesting beyond this, we suggest consulting with a Property Tax Professional who can represent you.

If you remember anything about how COMPS are chosen, remember this: if we find a potential case for your home, it's worth protesting. You don't have to agree with every comparable chosen, and you don't need to find your own. This was built from the ground up using more than 15 years of Real Estate experience in League City. If there's even a small chance, protest.

The comparable homes (COMPS) used in our Protest Reports are chosen with three priorities in mind: accuracy, fairness, and simplicity.

Researching property values, and deciding what's "comparable" and what isn't, is the most subjective part of any Appraisal process. One person’s comparable sales may be disagreed with by someone else. This is great for leaving the door open for correcting mistakes (like Property Taxes), and allowing both parties to discuss things, but it complicates matters when your evidence has to be "approved" by others making the final decision. That’s why we center our reports around three guiding principles to create something that’s difficult to refute.

Accuracy

We use the most reliable local real estate data available: the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) from the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR). It’s the gold standard used by licensed Realtors and appraisers, and the most accurate source of recent home sales in your area.

Our reports only include homes that fall within standard, acceptable ranges based on your property’s year built, square footage, number of stories, and neighborhood boundaries. We don’t cherry-pick outliers or pull in questionable COMPS just to make the numbers work. If a comparable is outside the norm, using it requires sound judgment—and that’s only done in select cases by someone who knows what they’re doing.

When we suggest that you have a potential case, the evidence in the COMPS is clear, local, and well-documented to support a strong argument for reducing your appraised value.

Fairness 

We believe homeowners are at a disadvantage when it comes to the time, resources, and industry expertise needed for a successful protest. Tax Corrector exists to fill that gap—to level the playing field and give homeowners a shot at lowering their property taxes, or at the very least, stopping the Appraisal District from increasing the value unfairly.

We never force a protest, and we never operate outside the bounds of what any reasonable person would consider fair. Our reports are built on objective, market-based evidence—the kind of case the Appraisal District should also recognize as fair.

Simplicity 

We don’t complicate our Protest Reports or crowd them with irrelevant information. The Appraisal District doesn’t need to see pictures of your home or even pictures of the comparable homes (although we provide at least one photo for each COMP). We focus on the market evidence that matters most.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Because of our commitment to accuracy, fairness, and simplicity, we don’t allow customization of the Protest Report or the COMPS.

Tax Corrector was designed to identify cases where the Appraisal District has overstated your Market Value, and we’ve built a process that specifically targets those cases with clean, objective evidence.

That said, if you’d like to add your own photos, notes, or comparable homes to your submission, you’re welcome to. Just know that our reports have been helping homeowners win fair valuations since 2022—and we recommend trusting the process we’ve built to work on your behalf.

We believe there's a clear difference between the "Market Value" that the Appraisal District uses for your property taxes and the "Market Value" you encounter when selling your home (often referred to as Resale Value). Unfortunately, the Appraisal District refuses to acknowledge this distinction, but we do, and it’s critical.

Resale Value - When you sell your home

When you sell your home, only licensed real estate appraisers are supposed to determine its market value, which is typically done during a real estate transaction involving a licensed Realtor. In this case, Market Value is decided between a willing buyer and seller, then confirmed by a third-party, certified appraiser. This process gives you the real-world price your home would deliver.

When we ask for your Proposed Market Value, or simply Market Value, we are talking about the Market Value that the Appraisal District is setting for your most recent property tax assessment. This is the number you are protesting as being too high. It's the single most important number for your property taxes. 

Market Value – What the Appraisal District Assigns for Property Taxes

The Appraisal District assigns their own version of "Market Value" to your home for property tax purposes. They’ll tell you it’s the same as the Resale Value, but there’s one major flaw in this claim: no one knows what your home will actually sell for until you go through that process with a buyer. The district is assigning you a hypothetical value, which is problematic because you’re being taxed based on this guesswork.

This is why we strongly disagree with this system. We stand with you to fight against these unfair assessments. We provide you with the accurate, fair data you need to ensure you're only paying your fair share—not an inflated, hypothetical tax bill.

Where to Find the Appraisal District’s Market Value

For Property Tax purposes, you can find your most recent Market Value on the Galveston County Appraisal District's website listed as Market Value. You do not need to worry about other numbers for protesting property taxes.