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.
Two trustees of the Appraisal Foundation drove to Austin on Friday morning to tell the Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board that the profession it regulates is running out of people.
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 Texas Senate Finance Committee will meet Sept.
With the state's July 25 certification deadline behind them, county appraisal districts have handed local taxing units their certified 2026 tax rolls — the official value of everything they can tax — and the yearlong property-tax fight now moves from what your home is worth to the rate your city, county and school board set in August.
Governor Greg Abbott's July 17 major disaster declaration for 28 flood-hit counties did more than unlock federal aid.
Candidate filing opened Saturday for three elected seats on the Tarrant Appraisal District board, putting a two-year residential appraisal freeze that left an estimated 190,000 county homes overvalued in front of voters on Nov.
Texas homeowners were promised that the state’s expanded homestead exemption would cut their tax bills this fall.
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.