Our Lindale Office

Consolidated Tax Service maintains a branch office in Lindale, TX. The office has been open for business since 1999.

Mr. Truett Phillips founded the office and once stated, “The county appraisal districts are charged with the responsibility of assessing fair market value on all taxable property as of January 1 annually. Each county appraisal district must appraise large numbers of parcels. For example, the Smith County Appraisal District alone appraises more than 146,000 parcels of property annually, and they do an outstanding job with the resources available to them. However, it is neither feasible nor economically practical for appraisal districts to undertake in-depth appraisals on each parcel of property within their districts. Therefore, they utilize an appraisal method known as the mass appraisal technique, which in some cases may overstate the property’s fair market value.”
 
"The mass appraisal technique utilizes indices and averages to determine the fair market value. This method sometimes fails to take into consideration the unique characteristics of an individual property. It is necessary to analyze each assessment to determine its accuracy."

The property tax has been increasing rapidly and is a major expense. “It can be controlled by proper representation,” said Phillips. “CTS can determine the fairness and accuracy of the tax assessments to assure clients that they are paying only their fair share of the property tax.”
 
Our Lindale office offers a full menu of ad valorem tax services. The CTS family is proud to continue Mr. Phillips' legacy. The services we offer are especially beneficial to small businesses that do not have in-house property tax departments.

Our staff will:
 
(1) Respond to all inquires from the taxing jurisdictions (e.g. appraisal districts, county tax offices, independent school district tax offices, etc)
(2) Answer all requests and correspondence with reference to ad valorem taxes
(3) Prepare and file all renditions
(4) Negotiate all taxable values with the proper taxing authorities
(5) Meet with the appraisal districts’ Boards of Review
(6) Verify all tax statements for accuracy
(7) Project future taxes for budgetary and planning purposes
(8) Prepare and file exemption applications where needed (e.g. agriculture, timber use, homestead, over-65, etc)
 
To reach our Lindale office:

Consolidated Tax Service, LLP
Attn: Kelle White
P. O. Box 2534
Lindale, Texas 75771
903-881-9331