2019 may have been the perfect year for lawmakers to pass an ambitious and expensive school finance reform and property tax reduction plan. Now Texas politicians face questions about whether doing so — without raising taxes elsewhere — will be sustainable in less auspicious times.

If proponents of the Texas aerospace sector need extra reason for cheer this holiday season, an imminent multimillion-dollar tax break could provide it

Tuesday’s Senate Finance Committee interim hearing, led by State Sen. Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound), brought with it the reemergence of a familiar topic: property taxes.

Officials like to credit the state’s lack of a corporate or personal income tax for making Texas one of the best states for business, but skyrocketing property values have given it a less-desirable ranking: one of the highest effective property tax rates in the nation, according to various studies a