Florida TRIM notices arrive in August 2026. Find out the exact mailing dates by county, your 25-day deadline to appeal, and what to do the moment your notice arrives.
TRIM stands for Truth in Millage. Florida law requires every county property appraiser to mail this notice each August, showing your proposed assessed value, applicable exemptions, and the estimated taxes you'll owe based on proposed millage rates from local taxing authorities. The TRIM notice is not your tax bill — it's your proposed assessment. But it determines your tax bill, which is why it matters enormously. If your assessed value is inflated, your taxes will be inflated. The TRIM notice is your one annual opportunity to challenge that number.
Florida law requires TRIM notices to be mailed by August 24 each year, but most counties mail earlier. Here's when to expect yours in 2026 based on historical patterns:
From the date your TRIM notice is mailed — not the date you receive it — you have exactly 25 days to file a Value Adjustment Board (VAB) petition challenging your assessment. In 2026, this means most Florida homeowners will face a petition deadline between September 9 and September 18. Missing this deadline means waiting a full year to challenge your assessment and paying inflated taxes in the meantime. Florida law is unambiguous on this point: there are no extensions and no exceptions.
When your TRIM notice arrives, do three things immediately. First, note the mailing date printed on the notice — this starts your 25-day countdown. Second, check your assessed value against what you believe your home is worth in the current market. Third, if your assessed value seems high, start the appeal process immediately — don't wait until the last week. TaxAppeal USA can have your VAB petition filed within 24 hours of you submitting your address.
TaxAppeal USA is built specifically for Florida's TRIM season. The moment you enter your address, our system pulls your current assessed value, generates a professional VAB petition with comparable sales evidence, and mails it to your county's Value Adjustment Board by tracked USPS First Class mail — creating a dated record that it was sent. The entire process takes under 10 minutes and costs a flat $89. Before that, we check the county roll to see whether a reduction would reach your bill at all — and if the Save Our Homes cap would absorb it, we say so instead of taking the $89.
$89 flat fee. You sign it, we file it. You keep 100% of your savings.
TaxAppeal USA is a self-service document-preparation and mail filing service. 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 represent customers before any appraisal district, board of equalization, value adjustment board, or review board. Every protest and petition is prepared for the property owner, signed by the owner, and filed in the owner’s name. In Florida we also pay your county’s Value Adjustment Board filing fee on your behalf and mail your petition to the Clerk of the Value Adjustment Board. Your petition is signed by you as the property owner under section 194.011(3), Florida Statutes. TaxAppeal USA does not sign as your representative, does not appear before the Board, and does not present evidence or argument at a hearing.