Texas has a reputation as a low tax state, but that reputation doesn’t live up to reality for all taxpayers.

Appraisal districts exist to identify and determine the market value of all property within each county.

Incorporates changes made by HB 3, 86th Legislature and HB 1525, 87th Legislature

No matter what your appraisal, the truth is your tax bill is zero until the local jurisdictions in which one owns property adopt their tax rates for the year.

By all accounts, it was to be a modestly productive legislative session. When lawmakers convened in January, Texas and the nation were in the grips of a horrendous pandemic that would ultimately take the lives of well over half a million Americans.