Who handles your property tax in Fayette County

The number that drives your whole tax bill is born in La Grange, at the Fayette County Appraisal District. The CAD decides what your property is worth. A separate tax office takes that figure, runs the rates against it, and mails you what you owe. Two desks, two jobs, and folks mix them up constantly, usually on the phone with the wrong one.

It stops being a trivia question the day you think your value came in too high. That fight belongs at the CAD, not with the office that printed the bill; the collector has no say in what your land is worth and can't change a dime of the appraisal. The protest window and the dates for filing exemptions run on the CAD's calendar, and that calendar doesn't bend for anybody. So if you're even thinking about pushing back, the appraisal district is the first call. Their forms and contacts live at fayettecad.org, and you'll find both offices listed plainly in the Comptroller's county directory if you'd rather start there.