PRESS RELEASE

June 15, 2022

Harris County Property Tax Assistance Week
June 20 – 24, 2022

Tax Office Conducting In-Person Events to Help Property Owners before June Deadline

Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Ann Harris Bennett announces the county’s first Property Tax Assistance Week as recognized by Harris County Precinct Three Commissioner Tom Ramsey’s motion in the June 14, 2022 Commissioners Court meeting. The court approved Ramsey’s motion unanimously.

In recognition of Property Tax Assistance Week, the Tax Office is conducting in-person property tax assistance events to help property owners enter into property tax payment agreements before the June 30, 2022 deadline.

“The Tax Office has mailed out over 100,000 past due property tax notices to property owners with unpaid property taxes encouraging those property owners to enter into a payment plan,” said Bennett. “A payment plan will still incur the accrual of penalty and interest. However, it will help prevent past due accounts from being turned over to collection attorneys and assessed additional fees and possible legal collection action.”

All delinquent property tax accounts sent to collection on July 1, 2022, will be subject to an additional 15-20% in attorney's fees. Property owners whose accounts remain delinquent could ultimately face lawsuits for unpaid property taxes.

The June 30, 2022 deadline is the last day before the turnover of past-due property tax accounts and the deadline for paying in full or entering into a payment plan agreement and making the first payment.

Tax Office property tax experts and staff from the Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD) will help property owners who attend a property tax assistance event with the following:

• Enter into a property tax payment agreement
• Apply for property tax exemptions
• Apply for a property tax deferral
• Ensure that a property owner is receiving all of the exemptions for which they qualify

Installment payment plans range from 12 to 36 months. All payments must be received by the due date specified in the payment agreement, and the balance must be paid off by the deadline stated in the contract. The first payment is due at the time the payment plan starts.

Requests for an installment payment plan may be made through the Harris County Tax Office website at www.hctax.net, by phone at 713-274-8000, or by email at installmentpaymentplan@tax.hctx.net, by fax at 713-368-2219, and by mail at P.O. Box 4663, Houston, TX, 77210-4663.

Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Ann Harris Bennett oversees the county’s property tax division that maintains approximately 1.7 million property tax accounts. The office collects more than $8 billion in property taxes and disburses to more than 79 taxing jurisdictions, including Harris County, the City of Houston, the Houston Independent School District, and Houston Community College.

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