AppealDesk is $49 for an emailed DIY packet. TaxAppeal is $89: we check your bill first and mail you a ready-to-sign kit. Both are signed and mailed by you.
AppealDesk is a DIY evidence tool. For $49, you enter your address and within minutes receive a packet in your inbox: comparable sales data, a cover letter, and a county-specific filing guide. It is genuinely useful -- the comparable sales data is real and the cover letter is professionally written. But AppealDesk stops there. Everything after that is on you.
TaxAppeal USA is a document preparation service. You enter your address and we check whether an appeal will actually lower your tax bill, after caps and exemptions, before you pay. If it won't, we tell you and don't sell you one. If it will, for $89 we mail you a ready-to-sign kit and email a PDF copy of the full kit that day. You sign it in ink, add a stamp and mail it. We do not file your appeal, represent you or attend hearings; the county writes to you directly, and you can forward us anything it sends.
In Texas, your protest is valid if postmarked by the deadline. In Florida, the VAB petition must be RECEIVED within 25 days of your TRIM notice mailing -- postmark does not count. If a packet gets delayed, lost, or arrives one day late, the petition is rejected and you wait a full year. Whichever service you use, you are the one mailing it, so mail it early -- with a TaxAppeal kit, the day it arrives -- or hand-deliver it to the VAB clerk, and keep your own proof of mailing or delivery. Florida also charges a county filing fee ($15 to $50); you pay it to the county with a cheque in the envelope, and it is not part of either service's price.
Here is every meaningful difference between the two services:
AppealDesk is the right choice if you are comfortable printing the documents and putting the filing together yourself, you are confident about your deadline, your state does not require receipt by deadline (postmark is sufficient), you live outside the five states TaxAppeal serves, or you want the lowest possible upfront cost. For a Texas homeowner who is organized, $49 is a reasonable spend.
TaxAppeal is the right choice if you want to know before you pay whether an appeal will actually lower your bill after caps and exemptions, you want the official form filled in for you, or you would rather have a printed kit arrive with a pre-addressed return envelope than print and assemble it yourself. Homesteaded owners in particular benefit from the check: a capped home can win a reduction and save nothing.
We check first. If an appeal will lower your bill, we mail you a ready-to-sign kit for $89 flat. You sign it and mail it, and you keep 100% of your savings.
TaxAppeal USA is a self-service document-preparation service. We prepare a ready-to-sign appeal kit and mail it to you; you sign it and mail it to the county yourself. In every state we serve, including Florida, we are not property tax consultants, agents, or representatives, we do not provide tax or legal advice, and we do not file appeals or represent customers before any appraisal district, board of assessors, board of equalization, value adjustment board, or review board. Every appeal, protest and petition is prepared for the property owner, signed by the owner, and mailed by the owner in the owner’s name. In Florida your petition is signed by you as the property owner under section 194.011(3), Florida Statutes, and the county’s Value Adjustment Board filing fee is paid by you directly to the county. TaxAppeal USA does not sign as your representative, does not appear before the Board, and does not present evidence or argument at a hearing.