Two Offices Handle Your Property Tax in Rains County

New owners in Rains County almost always call the wrong office first. The number that decides what your house is worth and the number that takes your check belong to two different places, a few blocks apart in Emory.

Value gets set at the Rains County Appraisal District, 145 Doris Briggs Pkwy, 903-473-2391. That office never collects a dime; it just puts a number on your land and improvements. The bill itself comes from the Tax Assessor-Collector over at 167 E. Quitman St., Suite 103. So if you think your value is too high and want to argue it, that's the appraisal district. If you want to pay, set up a plan, or ask why the bill looks the way it does, that's the assessor-collector. Mixing the two up mostly costs you a phone call and a redirect, but in the spring, when protest windows are open and bills are landing, that wasted call can matter.