Walker County property tax appeals
Reassessment schedules vary by locality in Alabama. Your notice, when one arrives, states your deadline.
Appeals go to County assessor, then the county Board of Equalization.
Alabama assesses an owner-occupied home (Class III) at 10 percent of fair market value, and a 2024 law now caps how fast your TAXABLE assessed value can rise, at 7 percent a year. You can still appeal your fair market value to the county Board of Equalization.
- Recent comparable sales show your county's fair market value is above what your home would actually sell for.
- The assessor's record has an error in your home's size, condition, or features.
- You bring your case to the county Board of Equalization while your hearing window is open.
- The 7 percent taxable-value cap already holds your bill below what an uncapped assessment would produce. Appealing cannot push it lower than the cap allows.
- Your fair market value already matches what your home would sell for. The board reviews market value, not your tax rate.
Read the full explanation
In Alabama, your county assessor determines the fair market value of your home, and if you own and occupy it as your primary residence, it falls into Class III and is assessed at 10 percent of that value. A recent law, HB73, added a new cap on top of that: your TAXABLE assessed value can now rise by at most 7 percent a year, even in a year when the county raises your true market value faster. That cap applies only to the taxable value used to calculate your bill, not to the county's underlying market value determination, so a gap can open between the two. You can still appeal your fair market value to the county Board of Equalization; the cap legislation did not change that process. An appeal is most likely to help when your county's market value itself looks wrong, comparable sales show it is too high, or the record has an error, not simply because your bill went up. This is general information, not tax advice.
Source: Alabama Department of Revenue, HB73 (Act 2024-344) · checked 2026-07-20. In Florida we run the numbers for you. In Alabama we give you the deadline, where to file, and the rules, verified against official sources.
- Filing window:
- You can appeal your fair market value to the county Board of Equalization; HB73's 7 percent taxable-value cap did not change that process. Contact your county assessor's office for the exact hearing schedule and how to bring your case, since Alabama's statute host does not publish a single machine-readable statewide filing deadline.
- Where to file:
- County assessor, then the county Board of Equalization
- Filing fee:
- Contact your county assessor's office to confirm any filing fee.
Verified against official sources, approved 2026-08-09.