Estimate your Carroll County bill from what your home is worth — school, city and county shown separately — plus the homestead credit and the 65-and-over freeze that both have to be claimed.
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The county assessor's appraised — market — value, not the assessed value. It's on your assessment notice and on the county's property search.
Credits you can claim
This one is worth checking even if you think it's already on your bill — the credit has to be claimed with the assessor, and it is easy to lose when a property changes hands.
Enter your assessed value to see the estimate.
Property tax in Arkansas is worked out in a way that is easy to get wrong in your head, because the rate is not applied to what your house is worth. It is applied to 20% of it. This page does the arithmetic for you and shows every part of the bill separately — school, city and county.
It also asks about the homestead credit and the assessment freeze, because both are worth real money, both have to be applied for, and neither is given to you automatically.
An estimate, not your bill
This applies the published rates to the value you entered. It doesn’t include any credit or exemption you may qualify for (see below), and a property’s special circumstances can change the figure. Your actual bill comes from the Carroll County Collector.
How the rate is set
How the bill is built
Take the appraised value of the property, take 20% of it — that is the assessed value — then apply the millage. A mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed value. Inside Eureka Springs the parts add up to 50.2 mills for 2025 taxes, payable in 2026: 35.8 for the school district, 4.4 for the city, and 10.0 for the county.
Amendment 79 also caps how fast the taxable value of a homestead can rise after a county-wide reappraisal — 5% a year for a home you live in, 10% for other property, until it catches up with full assessed value. The cap does not apply to new construction or to a substantial improvement, which the state defines as adding 25% or more to the value.
This applies the published county-wide millage to the value you type in. It cannot know about an improvement district, a voluntary levy, a frozen assessed value already on your record, or anything particular to your parcel. The Collector's own bill is the real number.
What can lower your bill
The age-65 and disability freeze — the one most often missed
If you are 65 or older, or you are disabled, the taxable assessed value of your home can be frozen at what it was on the next assessment date after you turned 65, became disabled, or bought the house. Millage can still rise, and substantial improvements still count, but reappraisal stops pushing your value up. In a town where home values have run well ahead of local incomes, this is the single biggest thing an older owner can do about their bill — and like the homestead credit, you have to ask the assessor for it. It does not pass to the next owner of the house.
Arkansas property taxes are paid a year in arrears — 2025's assessment is the bill you pay in 2026. Payment opens in the spring and the deadline is 15 October. The Collector's office in Berryville takes payment in person, by post and online.
Check it against the official sources
The office that issues and collects the actual bill