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TaxDrop currently serves Texas only. We're not taking DeKalb County appeals yet. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when we launch in Georgia.
β Free county guide - how a DeKalb County appeal works
β Join the waitlist - no payment and no filing. We'll just tell you when TaxDrop opens here.
TaxDrop currently serves Texas only. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when we launch here.
An assessment in DeKalb County, Georgia, may not tell the whole story about your property. Its condition, location, and comparable sales can all affect the case for a different value. Reviewing your assessment is a useful first step when the number does not seem to fit your home.
A DeKalb County property tax appeal is a formal challenge to an assessment, with filing rules and evidence requirements specific to Georgia. Review your notice, confirm the applicable valuation date, and check the official local instructions before filing. The guide below brings together the countyβs filing details, process, and resources so you can understand what preparation is involved.
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Step 1: Read the notice date.
Your Annual Assessment Notice comes from the DeKalb County Property Appraisal Department. The 45 days run from the date printed on it.
Step 2: Check the fair market value.
The notice shows a fair market value and the 40% assessed value beneath it. The appeal targets the fair market value.
Step 4: File Form PT-311A.
Online, by mail, or in person before the 45 days run out. Instructions are on the back of your notice.
Step 5: Settlement conference.
Georgia requires the assessors to offer a conference to try to resolve the appeal. Many DeKalb cases end here.
Step 6: Board of Equalization.
If DeKalb does not move, a three-member panel of local property owners hears the case.
Step 7: The freeze.
A value reduced on appeal is generally held for the following two tax years under O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-299(c).
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In the meantime, here's general information about how a property tax appeal works in DeKalb County. Check the county's official site for current deadlines and fees.
DeKalb County carries roughly a quarter of a million taxable parcels, and the Property Appraisal Department values them with mass appraisal models. Those models are good at neighborhoods and bad at houses. They do not know your foundation, your roof, or that the comparable two streets over was gutted to the studs and yours was not.
Georgia assesses at 40% of fair market value (O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-7). The ratio is fixed statewide, so a DeKalb County appeal argues the fair market value on the notice, not the ratio applied to it.
You have 45 days from the date on your Annual Assessment Notice to appeal (O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-311). DeKalb mails in the spring β in the 2026 cycle notices went out in late May and the deadline was July 13, 2026. The date on your own notice is the one that counts, and filing instructions are printed on the back of it.
DeKalb runs assessment appeals and exemption applications on the same deadline, so if you also need to claim or correct a homestead, senior, or disabled veteran exemption, do both in the same window.
DeKalb is a county of sharp micro-markets. Druid Hills, Decatur, Dunwoody, Stonecrest and unincorporated south DeKalb do not move together, and a model that pulls comparables across one of those lines lands nowhere near reality. Older housing stock compounds it: two houses of identical square footage and identical build year can be twenty years apart in actual condition, and the model sees one number.
Roughly 30% to 60% of properties nationally are over-assessed. About 5% of owners appeal.
Under O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-299(c), a value changed through appeal is generally frozen for the following two tax years. One DeKalb appeal, won once, can hold three years of value.
TaxDrop currently operates in Texas. See our Texas property tax guide.
45 days from the date on your Annual Assessment Notice (O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-311). DeKalb mails in the spring β in the 2026 cycle notices went out in late May with a July 13, 2026 deadline. Work from the date on your own notice.
Not yet. TaxDrop currently serves Texas only. Join the waitlist on this page and we'll let you know when we launch in Georgia.
Not for that year, unless you are still inside the 45 days from your spring Annual Assessment Notice. The tax bill is the end of the process, not the start. Set your case up now so it is ready when the next notice arrives.
Georgia's statewide assessment ratio (O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-7). Property is assessed at 40% of fair market value and taxed at the local millage rate. The appeal challenges the fair market value, not the 40%.
Yes, and you should. DeKalb runs exemption applications and appeals on the same deadline, and an application filed after it will not be reflected on that year's tax bill. Senior, disabled veteran and disabled resident exemptions run on the same clock.
Usually market value. Both are valid Georgia grounds, but comparable sales are what a Board of Equalization weighs most heavily.
Generally yes. O.C.G.A. Β§ 48-5-299(c) freezes a value set through appeal for the following two tax years, with limited exceptions such as substantial improvements to the property.