Texas Property Tax Consultant license lookup — free

A Property Tax Consultant is a private practitioner who represents property owners in tax protests and valuation disputes — a distinct TDLR program from the Appraiser and Assessor-Collector credentials, with its own two-tier structure separating a standard Consultant from a Senior Property Tax Consultant. Property owners hiring a consultant to fight a valuation are trusting that person's license as proof they're actually qualified to negotiate with a county appraisal district. Because consultants operate as independent professionals rather than government staff, the license itself is often the main credential a prospective client can verify before signing on. A consultant working on a lapsed license risks the credibility of every case they're currently representing.

TDLR states this one plainly: both the Consultant and Senior Consultant licenses carry an initial one-year expiration period, then move to a two-year cycle for every renewal after that. Continuing education runs 24 hours per cycle — 8 hours of state law and rules, 4 hours of ethics, 6 hours of appraisal, and 6 hours of property-tax-consulting topics — though the very first renewal after initial issuance doesn't require any CE at all. TDLR also spells out an 18-month grace window to renew normally, with a further window out to 36 months available through an Executive Director approval request; the agency's FAQ doesn't publish a late-fee dollar table, though, saying only that late fees 'apply under applicable statutes' — check the official FAQ for the current amount rather than assuming a number.