Louisiana · Do-it-yourself · $29
Appeal your Louisiana property taxes yourself.
Louisiana's window is open or opening in every parish RIGHT NOW, and it lasts fifteen days. The trap that decides most appeals is not the date: evidence you do not put in the assessor's hands before the Board of Review deadline is INADMISSIBLE later, by statute. This kit is how you arrive with the file already built.
Straight talk: we don’t have per-home comparable-sales data for Louisiana — Louisiana parcel records are held by 64 separate parish assessors rather than published as one statewide roll, and the parishes that publish them do not release the building detail needed to size-adjust a comparable set. So this is a guide and templates, not a comp report, and you pull your own comps— the kit shows you exactly how. That’s the honest reason it’s $29 instead of the $49 done-for-you kit we sell in states we cover.
The Louisiana DIY Appeal Kit
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How a Louisiana appeal works
The short version, free. The kit is the long version with the forms, the filing steps, and the letter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
✓The evidence-timing rule that quietly decides most Louisiana appeals, quoted from the form and the regulation, and the order of operations that keeps your comparables admissible.
✓How to find your own parish's fifteen days, with the 2026 dates we verified for Orleans, East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany and Caddo, all of which differ from one another.
✓The Jefferson Parish exception that lets the second-largest parish in the state open two weeks before the bracket everyone else publishes.
✓Why the Board-to-Commission clock is 30 calendar days and not the 10 days that circulates widely.
✓Why payment under protest is NOT a rescue for a missed deadline, and what the legality route actually covers.
✓The homestead exemption's municipal carve-out and its two exceptions, and why the senior freeze does not freeze your bill.
✓The correct 2026 senior income cap, and why the $150,000 figure in the printed Constitution is not law yet.
✓A ready-to-edit appeal letter citing the right Louisiana statutes and regulations.
How it works
- Buy the kit — the PDF lands in your inbox instantly.
- 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.
- Gather the evidence on the checklist and edit the appeal-letter template.
- File Form 3101 with 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 use a different agency, a different form, and an earlier deadline than the rest of the state. The kit covers each one in its own section.
Orleans Parish (New Orleans)
All property in Orleans Parish, which runs on its own statute and its own calendar, roughly a month ahead of the rest of the state.
- Deadline
- Exposure July 15 through August 17, 2026 (extended from August 15, a Saturday, by the statute's next-business-day rule), with ONLINE APPEALS accepted July 22 to August 20, 2026 at 4 p.m. The statutory complaint deadline is three business days after the last day of exposure.
- Filed with
- The New Orleans City Council sitting as the Board of Review, which appoints hearing officers. Assessor at nolaassessor.com.
- Form
- Form 3101, with an online appeal system available.
Jefferson Parish
All property in Jefferson Parish, the second-largest in the state, which has its own statutory window and is the exception most guides miss entirely.
- Deadline
- R.S. 47:1992.1 permits exposure to open as early as AUGUST 1 and to end no later than September 15, two weeks ahead of the standard bracket. Jefferson had not published its 2026 dates when we checked, so its window may already be legally open with no web notice. Call the assessor.
- Filed with
- The Jefferson Parish Council sitting as the Board of Review.
- Form
- Jefferson's first-step appeal uses property-type LAT forms, LAT 1 for residential, rather than the standard Form 3101.
East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany and Caddo Parishes
Three of the larger parishes on the standard August-to-September bracket, shown together because their published 2026 dates illustrate how much the fifteen days move around.
- Deadline
- East Baton Rouge exposed August 21 to September 4, 2026, with appeals due by close of business September 16, 2026 and the Board of Review meeting September 23, 2026. St. Tammany exposed August 17 to August 31, 2026, with assessor review to August 31 and the Board of Review on September 14, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. Caddo exposed August 17 to August 31, 2026, with appeals due September 8, 2026 at 5 p.m. and the Board of Review on September 14, 2026 at 1 p.m.
- Filed with
- Each Parish Council or Police Jury sitting as the Board of Review.
- Form
- Form 3101. St. Tammany offers online filing; East Baton Rouge and Caddo did not when we checked.
Deadline: The mechanic is a 15-day exposure of the assessment roll, and the parish picks the dates. R.S. 47:1992(F) and LAC 61:V.3101(A) require the lists to be open for public inspection for fifteen days beginning no earlier than August 15 and ending no later than September 15, EXCEPT in Jefferson Parish, where they open no earlier than August 1 and end no later than September 15 under R.S. 47:1992.1, and in Orleans Parish, where they are exposed daily excluding weekends and legal holidays from July 15 through August 15, extending to the next business day where August 15 falls on a weekend or holiday. That extension operated in 2026: August 15 was a Saturday, so Orleans ran to Monday, August 17, 2026, with online appeals accepted until 4 p.m. on August 20, 2026. Your complaint to the Board of Review must be RECEIVED no later than 7 days prior to its public hearing (R.S. 47:1992(C)), and in Orleans no later than three business days after the last date the lists are exposed. From the Board of Review you have 30 CALENDAR DAYS to appeal to the Louisiana Tax Commission, running from the earlier of a written decision properly sent or actual delivery. Note that carefully, because a 10-day figure circulates widely and is wrong: the two 10-day periods in the statute are institutional, being the time for the Board to convene after receiving certified rolls and for the Commission to hold hearings after receiving assessment lists, and neither is a taxpayer deadline. From the Commission you have 30 days to district court, and venue is your choice of the parish where the property sits, East Baton Rouge, or the Board of Tax Appeals. One naming trap that will confuse anyone comparing parishes: ORLEANS NAMES ITS ROLL A YEAR AHEAD. What was open in Orleans in July and August 2026 is the 2027 roll, while every other parish exposing in August and September 2026 is exposing the 2026 roll.
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.
Questions
Why is this $29 and not $49?
The $49 kit includes a comparable-sales analysis pulled from county records. We don't have that data for Louisiana yet, so this kit is the guide, the deadline rules, the exact form, an evidence checklist, and an appeal-letter template — you gather the comps yourself, and we show you how. Honest work, honest price.
When is the Louisiana property tax appeal deadline?
The mechanic is a 15-day exposure of the assessment roll, and the parish picks the dates. R.S. 47:1992(F) and LAC 61:V.3101(A) require the lists to be open for public inspection for fifteen days beginning no earlier than August 15 and ending no later than September 15, EXCEPT in Jefferson Parish, where they open no earlier than August 1 and end no later than September 15 under R.S. 47:1992.1, and in Orleans Parish, where they are exposed daily excluding weekends and legal holidays from July 15 through August 15, extending to the next business day where August 15 falls on a weekend or holiday. That extension operated in 2026: August 15 was a Saturday, so Orleans ran to Monday, August 17, 2026, with online appeals accepted until 4 p.m. on August 20, 2026. Your complaint to the Board of Review must be RECEIVED no later than 7 days prior to its public hearing (R.S. 47:1992(C)), and in Orleans no later than three business days after the last date the lists are exposed. From the Board of Review you have 30 CALENDAR DAYS to appeal to the Louisiana Tax Commission, running from the earlier of a written decision properly sent or actual delivery. Note that carefully, because a 10-day figure circulates widely and is wrong: the two 10-day periods in the statute are institutional, being the time for the Board to convene after receiving certified rolls and for the Commission to hold hearings after receiving assessment lists, and neither is a taxpayer deadline. From the Commission you have 30 days to district court, and venue is your choice of the parish where the property sits, East Baton Rouge, or the Board of Tax Appeals. One naming trap that will confuse anyone comparing parishes: ORLEANS NAMES ITS ROLL A YEAR AHEAD. What was open in Orleans in July and August 2026 is the 2027 roll, while every other parish exposing in August and September 2026 is exposing the 2026 roll.
What form do I file to appeal my Louisiana property assessment?
Form 3101 (Notice of Appeal Request For Board of Review (Appeal to Board of Review by Property Owner or Taxpayer)), filed with 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. The kit walks you through completing it line by line and includes a ready-to-edit appeal letter to attach.
Do you file the appeal for me?
No — this is a do-it-yourself kit. You file Form 3101 yourself with 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. The kit makes that straightforward with step-by-step instructions and a ready-to-edit letter.
What if it doesn't help?
30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. If the kit isn't useful, reply to your delivery email and we'll refund you.
Is this legal or tax advice?
No. It's general information to help you file your own appeal. Always rely on the date and instructions printed on your own assessment notice and confirm current requirements with your county.