Legal & limits
Not legal advice. Not a law firm. Not a registered tax agent. We do not file, appear, or take a cut of any savings.
The Assessment Appeals Board can confirm, reduce, or rarely increase the assessed value. No reduction is guaranteed.
Refund of the $199 packet price only if the packet we deliver is incomplete. Any county filing fee is paid to the county (when the county charges one) and is not refunded by TaxTooHigh.
TaxTooHigh is not a county, not an Assessor, and not an Assessment Appeals Board.
Appealing does not pause the tax bill. California’s first installment is typically delinquent December 10. Pay the bill on time; a reduction, if granted, is refunded later.
TaxTooHigh (taxtoohigh.com) sells a document packet for $199 for regular (annual) residential assessment appeals in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura, and San Diego Counties. You file the appeal. We do not register as a tax agent and we do not appear at any Assessment Appeals Board.
2026 regular-appeal deadlines are certified in CA BOE Letter to Assessors 2026/023: Ventura September 15, 2026; Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego November 30, 2026. All open July 2, 2026.
- Ventura: September 15, 2026. No county filing fee. Clerk / form
- Los Angeles: November 30, 2026, 12 midnight PST. $46 non-refundable, paid to the county. Clerk / form
- Orange: November 30, 2026, 5:00 p.m.. No charge to file. Clerk / form
- Riverside: November 30, 2026. $30.00 per application / per parcel, paid to the county. Clerk / form
- San Diego: November 30, 2026. No fee to file. Clerk / form
v1 covers regular (annual) residential assessments for homeowners and 2–20 unit landlords in those five counties. It does not cover supplemental-only product, commercial property, other states, other California counties, or any share of tax savings.