The number of Harris County residents and businesses protesting their property appraisals has risen to its highest level in 25 years despite the largest decrease in home values since the oil bust of the 1980s.

Jim Robinson, chief appraiser for the Harris County Appraisal District, said the explanation was simple: People do not like paying taxes.

As of mid-June, nearly 353,000 protests had been filed, about 26,000 more than the year before and three times as many as a decade earlier.

The growing number of protests comes in a year in which twice as many homes fell in value rather than rose.

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