CAD Report Cards: Results of the Comptroller’s 2010 & 2011 MAP Reviews – Presented to House Ways & Means Committee March 8, 2012 by John Kennedy

Fifth School Finance Lawsuit Filed – Turning the Tables on “Efficiency” A fifth school finance lawsuit was filed today by a group called, “Texans for Real Efficiency and Equity in Education (TREE)” in addition to five parents. The group filed a “Plea in Intervention” and challenges the school finance system on two fronts: EFFICIENCY. The…

New Developments on the Pollution Control Equipment Property Tax Exemption TCEQ Executive Director, Mark Vickery, last Wednesday issued notices of negative use determination on ten applications seeking a pollution control finding for hydrotreating equipment. This equipment is not designed to reduce emissions from the manufacturing process, but is to provide for the production of a…

November 3, 2011 Ways and Means Committee Meeting Wrap Up: Chapter 313 The House Ways and Means Committee met yesterday in its third meeting of the interim to take invited testimony on the property tax with a focus on the school tax limitation program authorized in Chapter 313 of the Tax Code. TTARA’s Dale Craymer…

Perspectives on Property Tax Exemptions in Texas, Including Those for Economic Development