Property Tax Appeals · Indiana
Appeal your property taxes
in Indiana.
Indiana county assessors adjust values every year through market “trending,” and mail a Form 11 notice when your assessment changes. To contest it, you file a Form 130 appeal with the county assessor by June 15 (or 45 days after the notice), which usually triggers an informal conference first; unresolved cases go to a hearing before the county Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals (PTABOA). If the PTABOA doesn’t give you what the evidence supports, the Indiana Board of Tax Review hears the next round. The whole track is built around a single question — market value-in-use as of January 1 — which documented comparable sales answer better than anything else.
File Form 130 by June 15 — or within 45 days of your Form 11 assessment notice if it arrived later. The controlling date is on the notice.
Indiana’s circuit-breaker caps limit a homestead’s tax to 1% of gross assessed value, but the cap doesn’t fix an inflated assessment — it just caps the damage. Cutting the assessed value itself, with a licensed appraisal as the anchor evidence, lowers the bill underneath the cap.
The evidence
Boards act on value,
not frustration.
However Indiana labels the process, the case underneath is identical: show what your home was actually worth on the assessment date. A licensed, USPAP-compliant appraisal — comparable sales, documented adjustments, a signed opinion of value — is that showing. Start with the $5 check to see if the numbers are on your side before you spend real money.
- Valued as of your assessment date — not today
- Comparable sales with adjustments and citations
- Signed by a state-licensed IN appraiser
- Phone walkthrough — no stranger in your home
- Delivered in 48–72 hours, rush available
Indiana counties
Indiana questions
June 15 of the assessment year, or 45 days after your Form 11 notice was mailed, whichever applies to you — the notice states the controlling date. File with your county assessor.
The county Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals — the local panel that hears your case if the informal conference with the assessor doesn’t resolve it. It weighs evidence of market value-in-use as of January 1.
No — the cap is a percentage of your assessed value, so an over-assessment still costs you money every year. Correcting the value is the only fix.
We’re not an AVM, a computer model, or a real-estate agent estimate. Every report is prepared under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and signed by a licensed appraiser in your state — the same qualification required for mortgage appraisals.