Property Tax Appeal · Marion County, IN
Appeal your property taxes
in Marion County, IN.
Home to Indianapolis, Marion County homeowners appeal through Indiana’s system: the county assessor sets the value, and the county Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals (PTABOA) 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.
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. Your assessment notice states the exact date — and the appraiser prepares your report and filing guidance for Marion County’s procedure.
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.
Marion County questions
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. Your assessment notice states the exact date for Marion County.
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.
Comparable sales as of the assessment date, adjusted for the differences between those homes and yours — the substance of a licensed appraisal. county Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals (PTABOA) 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.