Also, a lot of people don't know that you have the absolute right to file a property tax "return". Most counties it has to be filed the first of the year.
You can put down any value you want - you are the owner and you don't have to have a rational basis for the value. But it forces the appraiser to down a full blown appraisal.
The appraisers aren't supposed to use "batch appraisals" but they do - they almost have to. That's where the uniformity issue comes in. A batch appraisal is where they raise every house in a neighborhood by 15% instead of doing actual appraisals. That's why flyspecking their comparables is so important.
You can put down any value you want - you are the owner and you don't have to have a rational basis for the value. But it forces the appraiser to down a full blown appraisal.
The appraisers aren't supposed to use "batch appraisals" but they do - they almost have to. That's where the uniformity issue comes in. A batch appraisal is where they raise every house in a neighborhood by 15% instead of doing actual appraisals. That's why flyspecking their comparables is so important.