In order to stop paying property tax, there are some very interesting and very legal things you must do. It will require a great deal of research, and also a visit to the Secretary of State's office in your state. If you would like to quit paying your ad valorem property tax (like on a typical house) this article is for you. If you are able to legally stop paying property tax, it will save you an enormous amount of money through your life.

1. Go to the Secretary of State's office for your state. You will need to get a certified copy of the original land grant / land release for your property. This will be a (most often) hand written deed of original release from your state to the original property owner. Read the wording of the land grant. In 95% of cases, the land grants will say that the land is released from all interests, taxation, and control of the state to all owners, heirs, or assignees forever. They are most often worded exactly like that. This is proof that you do not owe a property tax because you are an assignee of the property. If it varies, it will only vary slightly.

2. Record the boundaries that your property sits on so that you can prove that your property exists within this original land grant and you will be able to show this to the county judge about your property tax.

3. Since you are an assignee of the land, take a certified copy of the land grant or land release to a county court. Here you will have to explain to a judge how the state has released all interest, taxation, and control over the land you reside on forever. You will also have to explain that since the state had no right to the property when the municipal corporation (the city) was formed, that the municipal corporation had no right to your land either. Also that the county had no right to right to ever give you a property tax at any time.

4. Since the judge will have no place for argument, you will most likely get a judgment in your favor ordering your local appraisal district to remove your home from their roll call. If you get an attorney involved or do your homework, you may be able to be reimbursed from all the years that the county charged you a property tax, compounded with interest.