Appeal your Louisiana property taxes yourself.

A guided workbook for homeowners preparing their own appeal. Turn your notice, property records and supporting documents into an organized filing plan.

Have a notice or a property-record question? Start with a plan.

The $29 kit helps you check what needs investigating, organize the evidence you collect, and work through the filing steps. Use it if you want a structure for doing the preparation yourself.

Need property-specific evidence first? Check available records for your address free. The kit does not determine whether you are overassessed or supply comparable properties. You verify your local requirements and file yourself.

• State-specific process guidance with official-source links
• Evidence organizer and filing checklist
• Ready-to-edit appeal-letter template

Prepare your Louisiana property tax appeal

Have a current notice? Check its deadline and reviewing office, verify the property details, then organize evidence that supports the correction you are requesting. Confirm official forms and fees before filing.

Preparing for a future window? Use the worksheets to review property records, list errors to investigate and plan your evidence. Buying now does not reopen a closed deadline or guarantee lower taxes.

The kit organizes those steps into a reusable guide and worksheets. It does not find comparable properties for you, file an appeal or replace your local authority’s instructions.

See what comes in the $29 DIY kit

See the Illinois worksheets and evidence organizer. This September 12 walkthrough shows an earlier kit version; today’s kit also personalizes your preparation plan and editable letter from the details you provide. State requirements differ.

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How a Louisiana appeal works

The short version, free. The paid kit adds the evidence workbook, filing controls, and editable letter.

1. Louisiana assesses homes at 10% of fair market value, so MULTIPLY your assessed value by 10 to see what the assessor thinks your home is worth. That is the number you contest.
2. Each parish exposes its assessment roll for just FIFTEEN DAYS, between August 15 and September 15. Jefferson can open August 1, and Orleans runs mid-July to mid-August on its own statute. Miss it and you lose the year.
3. The rule that decides most Louisiana appeals is not the date. You must give your evidence to the ASSESSOR before the Board of Review deadline, because the Tax Commission's review is confined by law to what the assessor received in time.
4. Filing costs nothing at the Board of Review or the Tax Commission, and since January 1, 2025 you do not have to pay under protest while a correctness challenge is pending before the Commission.

What to check on your assessment notice

• Multiply the ASSESSED value by 10. That is the assessor's opinion of fair market value, and if you would not have sold at that price, you have a case.
• Find your parish's 15-day exposure window and the Board of Review hearing date, because your complaint must be RECEIVED at least 7 days before that hearing. If it is not published, telephone the assessor.
• Did you get a Form TC-2 Notice of Increase in Property Value? The assessor must send one before the rolls open if your taxable assessment rose 15% or more.
• Check the homestead exemption: $7,500 of assessed value, which is $75,000 of market value. Remember it does not reduce your general city taxes outside Orleans, though it does reduce municipal SCHOOL taxes everywhere.

Official lookup: Louisiana Tax Commission: the appeals rulebook containing Forms 3101 and 3103 →

What’s inside

How it works

1. Buy the kit — the PDF lands in your inbox instantly.
2. Find YOUR parish's 15-day exposure window today, because it is measured in days and not months. Then understand the sequence: your evidence goes to the ASSESSOR first, during the window, and anything you hold back is inadmissible at the Tax Commission later.
3. Gather the evidence on the checklist and edit the appeal-letter template.
4. File the current instrument required by your parish Board of Review, which is the Parish Police Jury or Parish Council sitting as such. In Orleans it is the New Orleans City Council before your deadline.

Different process where you live?

Louisiana is not one system. These jurisdictions have local filing routes, forms or deadlines that can differ from the statewide overview. The kit covers each one in its own section.

What Louisiana charges to file

These are your county or state’s fees, not ours. Listed so there are no surprises.

• Board of Review (Form 3101): NO FEE. None appears in R.S. 47:1992, in LAC 61:V.3101, or on the form, and no parish is given authority to charge one.
• Louisiana Tax Commission (Form 3103.A): NO FEE. R.S. 47:1838 authorises only assessment-based fees on public service companies, insurers and financial institutions, and the Commission's entire appeals rulebook contains no filing fee.
• BEWARE A TIERED FEE SCHEDULE YOU MAY SEE QUOTED. Fees of $40, $300 and $450 belong to the BOARD OF TAX APPEALS under Title 69 of the Administrative Code, which is a different body, and those tiers key off the amount in controversy rather than the value of the property. At that body, appealing an assessment where the amount in controversy is under $10,000 carries no fee either.
• No payment under protest and no security is required while a correctness challenge is pending before the Commission (R.S. 47:1989(G), effective January 1, 2025).
• District court: ordinary court costs, and protest payment becomes relevant only once taxes have fallen due and you are carrying the matter beyond the Commission.
• Your real cost is evidentiary rather than administrative, and in Louisiana it is a cost of TIME rather than money: the evidence has to be assembled before your parish's window closes, because late evidence is worth nothing.

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