Housing finance corporations can erase an apartment owner’s property tax bill without notice to affected cities or counties, ...
For the past several years, Republican state lawmakers have pushed to rein in rising property tax bills. That push culminated ...
While unregulated protests abound in many of our cities, in the state of Texas, a well-defined process is in place for our ...
Increasing the homestead exemption would cost the state roughly $3 billion over two years and add to a growing tab of ...
AUSTIN – It is now in the hands of the Texas House to decide what to do about a new property tax cut plan. The author of the Senate's plan calls it the largest exemption increase in state history.
The latest round of bills filed in the Texas Senate bills on a historic $18 billion relief effort approved during the legislature's last session.
Senate Bill 4 has passed and heads to the House now, promising an increased homestead exemption for Texas property taxpayers.
Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan ...
The bill increases property tax relief by $40,000, and $150,000 for seniors, up from the current $100,000 homestead exemption approved in 2023's Texas legislative session. If passed by the house ...
Texas lawmakers in Austin again have a multi-billion dollar surplus. Again, some state leaders want to send money back to property owners and pay down local taxes by expanding the homestead ...
Twenty-nine Texas senators, headed by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) made the move to lower property taxes, right on the heels of Gov. Greg Abbott's State of the State address that declared ...