Thank you for a great 2019! As we near December 31, it allows an opportunity to look back on an incredibly successful year for our members and all Texas taxpayers. In 2019, lawmakers passed landmark legislation that gives taxpayers more say over future increases in all local property taxes—school, city, county, and special districts alike—ultimately…

Lt Governor Patrick this week issued his interim assignments to Senate committees. Committees are to study each “interim charge,” and address them in a report for the next legislature. Interim charges are often, but not always, a harbinger of legislation yet to come. Each committee was given a charge to monitor the implementation of legislation passed in…

The Latest Comptroller Draft Administrative Rule Revisions The Comptroller continues to roll out draft rule revisions to implement legislative changes enacted in the last Regular Session and TTARA has received four new proposals that have been circulated to us as a member of the Comptroller’s Business Advisory Group (BAG) for informal comment before submission to…

TTARA has received a proposed revision of Rule 3.286 concerning Seller’s and Purchaser’s Responsibilities that has been circulated to us as a member of the Comptroller’s Business Advisory Group (BAG) for informal comment before its submission to the Texas Register to begin the statutorily required 30-day public comment period. The Comptroller shares these drafts as…

Electronic Payment Services Rule Proposal TTARA received a draft rule proposal from the Comptroller’s Office concerning Tax Administrative Rule 3.9, the threshold for mandatory payments using the State of Texas Financial Network (TexNet) electronic payment services. Currently, Rule 3.9 requires that taxpayers who have remitted at least $10,000 in payments to the Comptroller use an electronic…