A clerical error is a data mistake on the assessment, such as wrong square footage or an extra bathroom. It is a fact error, not a fight over market opinion.
A clerical error on a property assessment is a data mistake on the record, such as the wrong square footage or an extra bathroom the house does not have. That is a fact error, not a fight over what those facts are worth.
What counts as a clerical error on an assessment?
The IAAO glossary describes an appraisal card, also called a property record card, as the assessor's document for a building and its site. A clerical error is a wrong fact stored on that card: living area that is not there, a bathroom counted twice, a garage attached to the wrong parcel. Those are inventory mistakes. Whether $200,000 is too high for a correctly described house is a value question instead. This page names the mistake. It does not walk through a correction form.
Example: the card says 2,400 square feet and the house has 1,800. The print can sit high because the file did. That gap is an example of a fact error, not a walkthrough of a correction form.
Look up if you are overpaying.
Is a clerical error the same as a property tax appeal?
A clerical error is a wrong fact. A property tax appeal is a challenge to the printed value, which may or may not have started as a fact error. The property tax glossary and the property record card page keep the file next to the notice. FairAppeal reviews your property and decides whether to file, and there are no upfront costs with Fair Appeal.