San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh presents his formal 2027 budget to the City Council today, and it is expected to carry something no city budget there has carried since the early 1990s: a property-tax rate increase.
A Travis County district court is scheduled to take up Austin's long-running Project Connect tax fight Thursday morning, in a hearing that will determine whether a court finally rules on the legality of the property tax increase voters approved in 2020 — or whether the case detours into another round of procedural appeals.
The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to take the first step toward a temporary moratorium on the development of new data centers in the city, Mayor Mattie Parker said in a statement issued after the vote.
The El Paso City Council voted 5-3 on Tuesday to advance the highest property tax rate the city can adopt without asking voters — a move that would raise the city tax bill on an average-value home by about $132 a year, according to reporting by El Paso Matters.
The appraisal rolls are certified and the argument moves to the only number that actually sets a tax bill.
The financing engine behind much of suburban Texas got a daylong defense in the Capitol on Tuesday — and a warning from the people who live inside it.
Texas homeowners were promised that the state’s expanded homestead exemption would cut their tax bills this fall.
Upshur County commissioners voted July 15 to join a proposed 16-county groundwater conservation district in East Texas, advancing a regional effort to regulate the large wells that Dallas-area planners and private investors want to drill over the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer.
As Texas homeowners prepare to see the state's larger homestead exemption on their fall tax bills, Austin is moving to claw back part of that relief on the city's side of the ledger.
The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District board will meet Thursday to consider adopting new groundwater rules that would cap pumping from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, days after companies tied to Dallas investor Kyle Bass sued the district in federal court over its permitting moratorium.