The comptroller serves a critical role in Texas government, overseeing state accounting and revenue functions, certifying the state’s budget, administering numerous tax programs, and providing economic and fiscal analysis that helps inform policymakers and the public.

School boards are required to adopt a budget and tax rate to finance that budget each year. As part of that process, the school board is required to calculate a “voter-approval tax rate” (previously known as the “rollback” rate).

Included in the property tax relief package passed by the 88th Legislature and approved by voters last November was the creation of the three newly elected appraisal district board of directors for counties with a population of 75,000 or greater.

The tax relief package passed by the 88th Legislature and approved by voters on November 7, 2023, delivered a great deal of school district property tax relief as promised. However, most of that property tax relief was realized by homeowners and has set Texas on a course of taxing residential and business property unequally.

Under reforms enacted in 2019, rising property values force down tax rates, helping to keep a lid on tax bills.