Population: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 estimate. County Debt — Texas Bond Review Board (FY2025)
🔴 2026 Protest Deadline: May 15, 2026 — or 30 days after your Notice of Appraised Value is mailed, whichever is later. Miss this date and you waive your right to protest.
Hunt County is changing. What was once rural pastureland east of Dallas is now catching the edge of DFW’s relentless expansion — and the appraisal district’s numbers are following. Long-time landowners and homesteaders who have lived here for generations are seeing tax bills their parents never faced, driven by values that reflect DFW speculation more than local economic reality.
You have the right to push back. Hunt CAD heard thousands of protests in 2023, and owners who showed up saved real money. The process is free. The deadline is firm. The resources below will get you started.
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Truth in Taxation — Your Right to Be Heard
Every taxing entity in Hunt County — your school district, city, county — must publish its proposed rate and hold a public hearing before adopting any rate exceeding the no-new-revenue rate. These meetings are open. Your voice is on the record.
View Hunt County Tax Rates → Photo: Hunt County Courthouse, Greenville, Texas. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who Taxes Hunt County Property Owners
| Taxing Entity | Type | Rate (2025 adopted) |
|---|
| Hunt County | County | $0.3332/$100 |
| Bland ISD | School District | $0.8569/$100 |
| Boles ISD | School District | $0.9657/$100 |
| Caddo Mills ISD | School District | $1.2552/$100 |
| Campbell ISD | School District | $0.6669/$100 |
| Celeste ISD | School District | $0.8932/$100 |
| Commerce ISD | School District | $1.2375/$100 |
| Community ISD | School District | $1.2077/$100 |
| Cooper ISD | School District | $0.9175/$100 |
| Cumby Collegiate ISD | School District | $1.1739/$100 |
| Fannindel ISD | School District | $0.7952/$100 |
| Greenville ISD | School District | $0.9669/$100 |
| Leonard ISD | School District | $1.2252/$100 |
| Lone Oak ISD | School District | $1.1569/$100 |
| Quinlan ISD | School District | $0.9064/$100 |
| Royse City ISD | School District | $1.2552/$100 |
| Terrell ISD | School District | $1.1305/$100 |
| Wolfe City ISD | School District | $0.9396/$100 |
2025 adopted rates per Texas Comptroller Tax Rates & Levies
(source).
City, MUD, college and other special-district rates may also apply depending on your parcel.
Your total depends on which districts your property falls in — verify current rates at your county appraisal district.
Local Help in Hunt County
These are local businesses that work with property owners in Hunt County. A listing is not an endorsement.
Greenville · Realtors
Tarpley, REALTORS has been working in Greenville since 1927, which makes it one of the oldest continuously operating businesses of any kind in Hunt County. R. E. Tarpley, Sr. started the company in life insurance and later added real estate and loan origination; he was still working in the office when he died in 1969. The firm is at 3504 Johnson Street.It is listed here under realtors, but the more relevant detail for a property owner is the range of what the office does: alongside residential sales, the firm's own materials describe appraisals and property tax consulting. That combination is uncommon in a county this size, and it means questions about what a property is actually worth and questions about what it is being taxed on can be asked in the same conversation.The brokerage handles single-family homes, condos and townhouses, mobile and manufactured homes, farms and ranches, rental and multi-family property, residential income property, commercial buildings, and raw land and acreage. That breadth matters in Hunt County, where a single owner may hold a house in town, a few acres under an agricultural valuation, and a rent house — three properties that are appraised, exempted and protested under three different sets of rules.The firm belongs to NTREIS, the North Texas Real Estate Information Services multiple listing service, and operates under Texas Real Estate Commission standards. Its location gives access to both the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the rural parts of the county. A listing here is not an endorsement or a recommendation of any particular agent. More Less
903-455-5135
Greenville · Realtors
AT Home Texas Real Estate is a residential brokerage at 7902 Traders Circle in Greenville, operating under broker Ashley Hammons, TREC license 615230. It is a family-run office and describes itself as locally rooted, with agents who are, in the firm's words, "more than just real estate agents" but "active members of the Hunt County community."The service area is genuinely county-wide and then some: Greenville, Lone Oak, Caddo Mills, Commerce, Campbell, Quinlan, Celeste, Wolfe City, Union Valley and Royse City, plus Farmersville, Sulphur Springs, Cumby, Brashear and Terrell across the county lines. For an owner in one of the smaller Hunt County towns, that coverage is the practical difference between an agent who knows what a comparable sale in Wolfe City means and one who only really works Greenville.The office handles buying and selling, and publishes home valuation and mortgage calculator tools on its site. The valuation angle is the one worth flagging for tax purposes. When you protest an appraisal, the appraisal district is arguing about market value, and the most persuasive counter-evidence is usually recent sales of genuinely comparable properties — not an automated estimate, but real closed sales an agent with multiple listing service access can pull and explain. Many agents will run comparable sales for a past or prospective client; it is worth asking what an office's practice is before assuming either way.One caution worth carrying into any protest: a listing price is not evidence of value, and neither is an automated online estimate. What carries weight at an appraisal review board hearing is what comparable properties actually closed at, adjusted for the differences between them and yours — condition, square footage, acreage, age and location. That is the work, and it is why the source of a number matters as much as the number.Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement, a recommendation, or any statement about results. More Less
903-454-2824
Greenville · CPAs & Tax Preparers
Beasley CPA LLC is an accounting firm with two Hunt County offices — 2710 Sunset Strip, Suite A in Greenville, and 100 Kings Plaza, Suite M in Commerce — which between them cover both ends of the county. The Greenville office is by appointment.The practice is broad for a firm this size. On the tax side it covers individual preparation and planning, estates and trusts, cryptocurrency, and IRS representation that extends to non-filed returns, back taxes, payroll tax problems, payment plans, offers in compromise and innocent spouse relief. On the business side it offers bookkeeping, payroll, part-time CFO work, cash flow management, business valuation, succession planning, new business formation, internal controls, forensic accounting and litigation support, plus QuickBooks setup and training. Clients span construction, dental and healthcare practices, hospitality, law firms, manufacturing and real estate.Two of those services touch property tax directly. Business valuation and forensic accounting are the skills behind an income-approach argument — the method that matters when the property under protest is a rent house, a commercial building or anything else valued on what it earns rather than what similar houses sold for. And business personal property renditions, which Texas requires from businesses that own equipment, inventory or fixtures, are a recurring January-through-April headache that a bookkeeping relationship makes considerably easier.The firm's own framing is that complex tax law makes it easy to miss deductions and credits when relying on software alone. Listing here is not an endorsement, and nothing on this site is tax or legal advice. More Less
903-494-4545
Greenville · CPAs & Tax Preparers
Conway CPAs LLC is at 8910 Wesley Street, Suite D in Greenville, with a second office in Rockwall. It is licensed in Texas and works with business owners, executives and independent professionals across a range of industries.The firm splits its work three ways. Tax services cover preparation, planning and IRS problem resolution — audit representation, back taxes, liens, levies, wage garnishment and offers in compromise. Individual services cover estate planning, personal financial planning and elder care. Business services run from bookkeeping and QuickBooks setup through cash flow management, internal controls, business formation, non-profit accounting, outsourced CFO work and strategic planning.The elder care and estate planning side is the part most directly relevant to Texas property taxes, and it is the part people tend to discover too late. Once a homeowner qualifies for the over-65 homestead exemption, the school district portion of the tax bill is subject to a ceiling, and a surviving spouse aged 55 or older may be able to keep that ceiling — but these are applications filed with the county appraisal district, not automatic adjustments, and they are easy to miss during the months after a death. The same is true when a home passes to heirs: until ownership is sorted out, the exemption may not follow.The firm states that "each client receives close personal and professional attention." As with every business in this directory, inclusion is not an endorsement and no outcome is implied. Verify any professional's current license status before engaging them. More Less
903-450-1200
Greenville · CPAs & Tax Preparers
D. Earls Tax Service has been preparing taxes in Hunt County since 1978, and is now run by the third generation of the family that founded it. There are two permanent offices — 3414 Wesley Street in Greenville and 8866 TX-34 in Quinlan — which puts the firm on both the city and the lake side of the county.The practice covers individual and business tax returns for all fifty states, payroll through Earls Payroll Solutions, bookkeeping with monthly reconciliations and financial reporting, and business consulting on profitability and IRS matters. The firm makes a point that it is open year round rather than only during filing season, which is the practical detail that matters if a question comes up in August.For property owners, the relevant overlap is rental and small-business property. If you own a rent house in Greenville or a shop with equipment in it, two things follow: the property is valued for tax purposes on a different basis than an owner-occupied home, and Texas expects a business personal property rendition covering equipment, inventory and fixtures. Both are easier to handle when someone already has your books.The firm has been voted Best Accounting Firm in Hunt County since 2013 by the Herald Banner's community awards, and lists Best Tax Service and Best Accounting Firm designations across 2013 to 2023 plus a 2025 Best of the Best award. Those are local popularity awards, not a regulatory credential, and should be read as such. Inclusion here is not an endorsement, and nothing on this site is tax advice. More Less
903-454-2253
Greenville · Title Companies
Kincy Abstract & Sabine Title Company is a title and abstract company at 6417 Wesley Street in Greenville, and it has been doing this work in Hunt County since 1896. That date matters more than it sounds. The company keeps its historical title records in-house, and those records reach back to the original land grants — which is exactly the kind of paper trail that decides an argument about where a boundary actually runs, who signed what in 1948, or why an old mineral reservation is still clouding a sale.For a property owner, a title company matters at two moments. The first is closing: the firm coordinates the closing from start to finish, working with the realtor, the lender, the attorney and the buyer, and issues both Owner's and Lender's title insurance policies. The second is quieter but often more useful — the title search itself. A detailed search turns up ownership history, recorded liens and other documents filed against the property. If you are protesting an appraisal and need to prove when you actually bought, what you paid, or that an easement or defect limits what the land can be used for, that recorded history is where the evidence lives.The company serves Hunt, Rockwall and Collin Counties and the wider Northeast Texas region, with offices in Greenville, Royse City and McKinney. It lists membership in the Texas Land Title Association. Title work is not tax work, and a title company will not file a protest for you — but the closing statement and title documents it produces are among the strongest pieces of evidence a recent buyer can bring to an appraisal district. More Less
903-450-1116
Greenville · Title Companies
Money Law & Title operates at 2608 Lee Street in Greenville as both a title company and a law firm — an unusual combination, and the reason it shows up on this list under title rather than as a general practice. The Greenville office handles closings for residential and commercial transactions, escrow management, title insurance and title examinations, and works with home buyers, lenders, real estate agents and builders across Hunt County.The legal side covers real estate law, business law, wills, estate planning and probate. For a Texas property owner, that pairing is worth understanding, because several of the property-tax problems people run into are legal problems wearing a tax costume. An inherited home where the deed was never cleared through probate is the common one: the appraisal district may have no record of who owns the property now, which can quietly block a homestead exemption the heir is otherwise entitled to. Sorting out the estate is the fix, and that is legal work, not a protest.The firm also maintains offices in Sulphur Springs, Emory, Terrell, Mount Vernon, Cooper and McKinney, so a Hunt County owner with land across a county line is likely to find the same firm on both sides of it.As with any title company, the closing documents are the practical takeaway for tax purposes. A settlement statement showing what you actually paid, dated and recorded, is direct evidence of market value in the year you bought — and it is the single document appraisal districts find hardest to argue with. More Less
903-454-4500
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— Section 13, Declaration of Rights, Republic of Texas, 1836Hunt County is home to families who have worked this land for generations. Multi-generational Texans who have owned property for decades are being pushed off it by tax bills their parents and grandparents never faced. The founders were explicit: property shall not be taken without consent and just compensation. Show up. Look up your value. File your protest. Attend the hearings. The people setting these rates are your neighbors. They work for you — as long as you hold them to it.
