Two offices handle your property taxes in Deaf Smith County

At 140 E. 3rd Street in Hereford, the Deaf Smith County Appraisal District does two jobs that are usually split between two offices. DSCAD decides what your house, land, or building is worth for tax purposes, and it also takes the payment. In a lot of Texas counties you'd write your check to the tax assessor-collector, but here that office stays out of property taxes entirely. One front desk, start to finish.

That makes DSCAD the place to go for everything tied to your bill. If you own a home and live in it as your main residence, the homestead exemption gets filed there, and it can knock down the taxable value the tax is figured on. A value that looks too high also gets challenged through DSCAD, by protest. Exemption amounts and the protest window move from year to year, so the live numbers sit on the district's own pages at deafsmithcad.org rather than in a note that ages.