Consider and take possible action regarding granting authority to the Chief Appraiser of the Ellis Appraisal District (“EAD”) and all other EAD employees, as delegated and determined by the EAD Chief Appraiser, to act as Italy ISD’s agent regarding protests of the Comptroller’s Property Value Study for tax year 2025. Description: The Comptroller’s Property Tax Assistance Division states in Rule 9.

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8.A.2. Consider and take possible action regarding granting authority to the Chief Appraiser of the Ellis Appraisal District (“EAD”) and all other EAD employees, as delegated and determined by the EAD Chief Appraiser, to act as Italy ISD’s agent regarding protests of the Comptroller’s Property Value Study for tax year 2025. Description: The Comptroller’s Property Tax Assistance Division states in Rule 9.4302 (e) (2) A chief appraiser or other employee of an appraisal district that appraises property for a school district protesting the comptroller’s property value study findings may not be designated as the agent for the protesting school district unless: (A) the governing body of the appraisal district authorizes the chief appraiser or other employee of the appraisal district to act as agent for the protesting school district; (B) the governing body of the protesting school district authorizes the chief appraiser or other employee of the appraisal district to act as agent for the school district; and (C) the superintendent of the protesting school district signs the petition representing the chief appraiser or other employee of the appraisal district has been properly authorized pursuant to this subchapter and the laws of the State of Texas to act as agent for the school district. Since the appraisal district reviews to file the Self-Report Appeal every year, please ask your governing body to consider adopting something like the attached resolution, EVERY YEAR, so we can continue serving you in this way. This year we added some language to also authorize EAD to file "an Audit for a previous year’s values" to this authorization. There are many of your delinquent tax firms who file audits for school districts at a cost of 10% of the money potentially refunded from the State. The reports they submit must be generated by the appraisal district, so the lion’s share of the work is done by EAD. Please feel free at any time to request us to review your previous years value for a possible audit.  We would like to save you that 10% should you be interested in that FREE service from EAD. If you are not interested, you can certainly remove the "an Audit for a previous year’s values" should you elect to have your law firm file an audit for you.

This motion is scored as RESTRAINS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 2.5/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, voting YES on measures that cap or reduce ad valorem tax burdens, expand taxpayer exemptions, retire debt early, enforce competitive bidding caps, or remove regulatory/zoning barriers to private property rights earns a positive Pro-Liberty score.