Property Tax Appeal · Madison County, AL
Appeal your property taxes
in Madison County, AL.
Home to Huntsville, Madison County homeowners appeal through Alabama’s system: the county revenue commissioner (or tax assessor) sets the value, and the county Board of Equalization hears the case. Boards act on evidence of market value as of the assessment date — a licensed, USPAP-compliant appraisal is that evidence. Start with the $5 check to see what you’d save.
You generally have 30 days from the date on your valuation notice to file a written protest with the county Board of Equalization. The date is printed on the notice. Your assessment notice states the exact date — and the appraiser prepares your report and filing guidance for Madison County’s procedure.
Owner-occupied homes are Class III property, assessed at just 10% of appraised market value — so the fight is over the appraised (market) value line on your notice, and every dollar you cut there flows through at that ratio. Make sure your homestead exemption is on file before you worry about anything else.
Madison County questions
You generally have 30 days from the date on your valuation notice to file a written protest with the county Board of Equalization. The date is printed on the notice. Your assessment notice states the exact date for Madison County.
In Alabama, the county revenue commissioner (called the tax assessor in some counties) values property as of October 1, and mails a valuation notice when your value changes. To contest it, you file a written protest with the county Board of Equalization within 30 days of the notice date, then present your case at a board hearing. If the board doesn’t move, the next stop is circuit court. Alabama’s effective tax rates are among the lowest in the country, but the flip side is that assessing offices are thinly staffed — mass-appraisal errors on individual homes are common and rarely self-correct.
Comparable sales as of the assessment date, adjusted for the differences between those homes and yours — the substance of a licensed appraisal. county Board of Equalization panels see hundreds of cases; a signed, USPAP-compliant report is the document they can act on.
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.