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Prepare a property tax appeal

Use AI to gather comparable sales and draft an assessment appeal before your county's deadline.

What happened

A 2026 field experiment (NBER working paper) gave 645 Dallas County households access to an AI chatbot for property tax appeals. It raised the share who filed without a paid agent from 41.4% to 50.5%. The study measured filing, not wins.

Our verdict

AI lowers the effort of appealing, which is the main reason people don't. Your county records decide the outcome.

Tools

Any chat assistant with web access

Prompt to copy

My home at [city, county] was assessed at [value] for [year]. Explain my county's appeal process and deadline, list the evidence assessors usually accept, and help me build a table of 3 to 5 comparable recent sales (I'll verify them against county records). Then draft a short appeal letter.
Before you try it: Verify every comparable sale against official county records. Missing the deadline usually ends the appeal.

Sources

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