How do I protest my Tarrant County property taxes online through the TAD portal?

Tarrant County runs its protests through the Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD) online portal, which pairs electronic filing with an automated value-negotiation tool.

What the portal is. The Tarrant Appraisal District provides an online dashboard where Tarrant County owners file protests and access value-negotiation features. TAD describes the portal and account setup on its new-portal page: you create a dashboard account using the Online PIN found on your notice of appraised value.

How to file: 1. Create or log in to your TAD dashboard account using the Online PIN from your value notice. 2. Start a protest for your property through the dashboard. 3. Select your grounds — for a home, typically both value over market and unequal appraisal under Tex. Tax Code §41.43. 4. Use TAD's online value-negotiation tool, which weighs sale comps, equity (equal-and-uniform) comps, your subject sale price if available, and your input to offer a reduction if the data supports one. 5. Request the district's evidence so TAD provides its data at least 14 days before any hearing under Tex. Tax Code §41.461. 6. Submit and save confirmation.

The online negotiation tool. TAD's tool is an informal-settlement channel: if it offers a reduction you find acceptable, you can resolve the protest online without a hearing. If the offer is too small — or the tool can't reduce your value — you keep your right to a formal Appraisal Review Board hearing under Tex. Tax Code §41.45.

Deadline. File by May 15 or within 30 days of your notice's delivery, whichever is later, per Tex. Tax Code §41.44.

Tip: before accepting an online offer, compare it against your own comparable-sales and equal-and-uniform evidence. A tool-generated reduction is convenient, but if you have strong comps the ARB may go further. Confirm the current portal link and account-setup steps on TAD's site each season, since the appraisal district has re-platformed its portal in recent years.