We prepare your DR-486 petition, pull comparable sales in Sarasota County, and mail it with the county filing fee paid to the Sarasota Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Comptroller – Clerk to the Value Adjustment Board — $89 flat plus the $50 county fee, $139 all in. No percentage of your savings.
We’ll tell you when not to hire us.
To appeal your Sarasota County property taxes in 2026, file a Value Adjustment Board petition (Form DR-486) with the Sarasota Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Comptroller – Clerk to the Value Adjustment Board within 25 days of your TRIM notice. For the 2026 tax year that deadline is September 11, 2026. Include evidence of overassessment such as recent comparable sales. The Sarasota County VAB filing fee is $50, payable to Board of County Commissioners. Filing is authorized under Florida Statute §194.011. TaxAppeal USA prepares your DR-486 petition, you sign it yourself as Florida Statute §194.011 requires, and we pay the county filing fee and mail it for a flat $89 plus that fee. TaxAppeal USA is not your representative and does not appear before the Board.
Under Florida Statute §194.011 — we prepare it, you sign it, we mail it
Every other Sarasota County protest service takes a cut of your savings. TaxAppeal USA doesn't.
Not the Sarasota County Property Appraiser. The Property Appraiser sets the value your petition challenges, but does not receive the petition — a DR-486 mailed there is never filed, and the appeal year is lost. TaxAppeal USA mails to the Clerk address above and encloses the filing fee. Verified against Sarasota County's published VAB page →
At 12.7527 per $1,000, every $10,000 removed from a taxable value is worth roughly $128 a year — before any assessment cap. Where Save Our Homes or the 10% non-homestead cap already holds your taxable value below market, a reduction can be absorbed and save you nothing. Our free Sarasota County check tells you which applies to your property before you pay anything.
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File My Appeal — $139 All In →Every one of these files through the Sarasota County Value Adjustment Board on the same September 11, 2026 deadline, with the same $50 county filing fee.
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.