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August 24, 2015      11:09 AM

Breaking: Austin filing suit challenging Texas property tax appraisal system

Statesman:Radical under-appraisals distort burdens to homeowners; appraisal districts outgunned in courts--don't have resources to fight challenges

From the story: "A city-commissioned study, which found that Travis County commercial and vacant land was under-appraised by 41 percent this year, said that the Travis appraisal district appeared to know of only about 15 percent of the data used in the study"

A copy of the city’s petition is here.