Freezing your property value does not freeze your tax bills because local tax rates aren’t frozen. How much you pay depends on how much local governments want to spend.

Are you tired of rising appraisals driving up your property tax bill? Some chief appraisers around the state are touting a path to “tax relief” for Texans suffering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic:

Are you tired of rising appraisals driving up your property-tax bill? Some chief appraisers around the state are touting a path to “tax relief” for Texans suffering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic:

As local governments in the state (but not the governor) implement stay-at-home orders to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, Texans are sticking inside, reported Gregory Meyer for The Financial Times. The decline in fuel demand is one factor behind oil cratering to around $20, the other being the ongoing oil-pricing war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. And it’s…

On Monday the price of U.S. crude oil dropped to below $20 a barrel for the first time since 2002. The oil price plummet is due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that’s halted fuel demand and disrupted various sectors of the economy.