Cameron County Appraisal District Property Tax Solution Support

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“He helped my husband and I get a 100% Disabled Veteran exemption. He was very honest in his approach and wonderful to work with.”

“Alan is brilliant and obviously knows what he’s doing.  Every year he saves me over $10,000 on business property taxes.“

“Property Tax Time is amazing. Alan and his team fought for us to lower our property taxes for our business and saved us more than I could’ve imagined.”

Alan Atherton, owner of Property Tax Time is a licensed Texas Property Tax Consultant. He's been helping Cameron County Taxpayers save Time, Money, and Stress since 2006.

I have worked hard to be at the best in my profession. 2022 I earned a special designation as the only Senior- Property Tax Consultant in Cameron County. I will be honored to represent you as your Property Tax Consultant at Cameron County Appraisal District. With 20 years as a Texas Licensed, Real Estate Salesperson. 17 years as a Texas Licensed, Property Tax Consultant. We are the experts at dealing with the Cameron County Appraisal District.

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Let’s start with a phone call.  If you fill out this form, I’ll have the important information about your situation.  Then we can talk about solutions we can provide you to work with the Cameron County Appraisal District.

We help with tax issues of Commercial Real Property, and Residential Homeowners.  

Avoid paying penalties and achieve peace of mind.  

My Strategies Works

  • Call Now, we always have options to start prepare for this tax year or next year.
  • Prepare Rendition- Business Personal Property and avoid paying 10% Penalties.
  • Physical onsite inspection of each account listing and photo of all assets.
  • Review all information, identify errors and correct those errors, especially double taxation. This is very common.
  • Use Exemptions, Correctly Depreciation Assets and Allocated Value as applicable.
  • Review all Leased Equipment as this can be double taxed or unfairly over taxed. Double taxation of Business Personal Property is very real. Example. Client had 2 Business locations, headquarter office and warehouse in Brownsville, plus a shipping warehouse in Houston. After years ignoring rendition request and of not filing rendition the secretary was told she could simply use the Asset and Depreciation statement as Rendition for $600,000 assets by Appraisal Districts. The main problem was it was given to both Cameron County Appraisal District and Harris County Appraisal District. Each taxing entity for both counties taxed client at a $600,000 taxable value. Quickly I corrected this major error, filled corrected renditions to both Appraisal Districts. Revised Business Property Tax Rendition to $420,000 taxable value for Brownsville Location and $180,000 Houston location. This one mistake resulted in client over paying $13,000 for 5 years.
  • Determine a fair acceptable taxable value for each asset and account.
  • Prepare and submit a presentation of evidence for a meeting with Cameron County Appraisal District staff and/or Appraisal Review Board if needed. Using the evidence to prove our rendered taxable value is more indicative of client true property taxable value. While complying with Texas Property Tax Codes and Laws within guidelines of Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice to support our case.

Commercial Real Property

  • This is your Land and Improvement.
  • Utilize internal tools and market data in order to develop a sound case for each real property. Determine our own taxable value reviewing Comparable Sales Approach, Income Approach or Cost Approach.
  • Investigating and protest incorrect the evidence being used by Appraisal District to determine your property tax value. Many times, current actual market trends are different than present by the Cameron County Appraisal District, as they tend to use past years history values.

Income Producing property such as Shopping Plaza, Apartment, Hotels, Warehouse even residential homes. Communicate with client in order to gather evidence of structural condition or limitation of potential income pro-forma. Ensuring pro-forma statement value is reflected accurately.


Residential Homeowners

I have helped many taxpayers most do not need representation. They really needed an honest second opinion that they are not being taken advantage of. For 17+ years I have represented taxpayers at many different County Appraisal Districts. My specialty is working with the Cameron County Appraisal District. I have personally seen taxpayers; scream, curse, throw papers, kick staff desk, slam doors, cause a scene sometime even escorted out of building by the Sheriff. These are not good negotiating tactics. Protest with documented evidence not emotion.

By Law all Appraisal Districts must value all property as “Highest and Best Use”. The definition of highest and best use is, “That Use which will produce the highest return to the land over a given period of time is the best use.” The 4 criteria are: Physically Possible, Legally Permissible, Financially Feasible, Most Productive.

We are NOT the Cameron County Appraisal District.  We are Property Tax Time which is managed by James Alan Atherton, a Texas Registered & Licensed Property Tax Consultant.

Regulated by The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, P.O. Box 12157, Austin Texas 78711
1-800-803-9202, 512-463-6599; website: https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/.